About This Book
A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts and Dark Matters includes nineteen strange and masterful short fiction stories in this second collection by award-winning author Eric J. Guignard. From hauntings and oblivion to monsters, murder, and anthropomorphism, A Graveside Gallery explores the literary odd and macabre that reside in the vast shadows of our existence.Discover why Eric J. Guignard's beautifully-voiced and disquieting work has been praised by sites such as Library Journal (Guignard captures the depth of emotion underlying fictional terrors) and Publishers Weekly (high-concept and brilliant) as well as the NY Times, CNBC News, Booklist, and more, for stories such as these: - In A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds, a gay Hispanic teen in 1950s Los Angeles, mourning the loss of a friend, has a chance to make amends during Day of the Dead.- In Incident at the Red Hawk Road Stop, the owner of a roadside trading post has a deadly secret, but so too does the customer he kills.- In Penny's Diner, a long haul trucker, coming home after an accident, stops at a curious diner.- In The Ascending Lights of Yu Lan, an embittered sailor in 1917's San Francisco Wharf encounters an immigrant from China who offers peace from ghosts.- In Bummin' to the Beat of the Road, a Beat-era youth leaves home to travel the land, only to find madness, murder, and the teeth of a new generation.- In Perchance to Dream in Voices of a Fiend: A Fanciful Epilogue to Frankenstein, an intimate epilogue is suggested to the famous novel Frankenstein, offering a more hopeful closure to characters' lives.Those and thirteen other tales explore the fearful and nebulous boundaries of reality. Visit A Graveside Gallery by Eric J. Guignard and behold that which is captivating, startling, and darkly enriching.
