About This Book
Everyday horrors, the unexpected twists encountered during an otherwise normal day. The skewed perspectives, those moments of transformative paranoia when everything appears as it might through a funhouse lens. The dreamlike narratives and rhythms which fracture consensual reality into genre-bending rides. When life becomes unmoored and the prosaic becomes surreal. These are the worlds portrayed in this new collection of 20 stories by Steve Rasnic Tem, winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and the Horror Writer Association's Lifetime Achievement awards.Tem's fiction gives you insight into the lives of people who want something they can't have, and it allows you to suffer their failures as though they were your own. – Simon StrantzasHis work...will haunt your imagination and your heart in equal measure, and it both expands and defines the genre. - Weird Fiction ReviewSteve Rasnic Tem is a school of writing unto himself. – Joe R. LansdaleIncluded are such stories as A Thin Silver Line (originally scheduled for The Last Dangerous Visions), the folk horror Gavin's Field, an aging man's final road trip in The Old Man's Tale, the Halloween musings of When They Fall, the personal apocalypse of Privacy, the Jack the Ripper revelations of Monkeys, the pandemic Wendigo tale An Gorta Mór, the cosmic horror The Things We Do Not See, a bizarre journey Within the Concrete from ParSec, and the heartbreaking Memoria from The Deadlands.
