Sign-In
Cart
These Words Are Haunted: A Fantastic Books Book
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781515423645
Publisher: Fantastic Books
Published: Aug 19 2018
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Zombies spar with humans for dominance of a post-apocalyptic Manhattan in the Stoker-nominated A Plague on Both Your Houses. The King returns to prove that rock 'n' roll will never die in The Elvis Syndrome. And a dying boy is the catalyst for a deal with a decidedly different devil in Making Peace with the Leader. These and ten more nightmarish tales form a bizarre baker's dozen in Scott Edelman's acclaimed horror collection.
Like some creature out of Star Trek, Scott Edelman projects a zone of distortion that elevates all existence within its influence to the realm of the surrreal. --Adam-Troy Castro, from his introduction
Scott's delight in metafictional excursions, his blend of caustic humor with unstinting empathy, and his willingness to face all terrors unflinchingly--these traits constitute a unique voice in the field. If, as Scott avers in his Afterword, he can't get used to the notion that perhaps 'somebody up there likes me, ' he's surely in trouble now, for this volume will earn him the admiration of thousands of mere mortals as well as the blessings of those gods. --Paul Di Filippo
Scott Edelman's stories are utterly uncompromising, bleak, furious, penetrating, overflowing by turns, they reconstruct and re-enact familiar tropes in a fashion never less than astonishing and original. A major writer in the making. --Barry Malzberg
Edelman has a truly, deliciously twisted imagination. Buy it, read it. It'll keep you up most of the night, but that's what horror is for, isn't it? --Mary A. Turzillo
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Baughman, Judith
Paperback