Author: Clint Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614980650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"These smart, unsettling stories give us, with vivid detail, both the squalidly ordinary and the terrifyingly extraordinary-and make clear how closely the two are linked."-Ben H. Winters, Edgar-Award-Winning author of "The Last Policeman" "Clint Smith's "Ghouljaw" stories use vivid imagery to build intense close-ups that connect reader with character, then adds psychologies corrupted by sex, loss, betrayal, guilt, cowardice, denial, and that fatal flaw pomposity. With sprightly literate language he twists old motifs into new shapes of the rural gothic, often embodied in some of the spookiest "monsters from the id" yet imagined-creatures gory, squishy, bloody, witchy, wild. Not to forget a demonic "dog" that scared the bejesus out of me! The monsters of humanity, too, find new life here, as blood cults, avenging mystics, violent poachers, PTSD, and repressed memories incarnate. Clint Smith's "Ghouljaw" releases into the reader's world a darkness that teaches, shakes, and warns. Read and after a night of tossing sleep you'll awaken changed. For the better? Well, as it is with Smith's characters, that matter's up to you."-Jim Powell, MFA, Senior Lecturer, IUPUI Over the past several years, Clint Smith has established himself as a powerfully imaginative writer of weird fiction. In this first collection of short stories, Smith demonstrates the multifaceted talents that will establish him as one of the notable weird writers of his generation. What distinguishes Smith's work is both the originality of its weird conceptions and its careful delineation of human character. One of his earliest tales, "Benthos," features both these qualities, telling a grim tale of alienated youth and drug-taking that veers into the grotesquely supernatural. In "The Tell-Tale Offal," Smith cleverly updates Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" in a grisly story of physical horror. In "What Happens in Hell Stays in Hell," Smith uses the war in Afghanistan as a chilling backdrop to unthinkable horrors unleashed in the parched sands of the Middle East. "I have no doubt that Clint Smith will be heard from in the future as a leading practitioner of the modern weird tale. The stories in this collection testify not only to his literary potential but to his already significant accomplishments."-From S. T. Joshi's foreword
Ghouljaw and Other Stories
Author: Clint Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614980650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"These smart, unsettling stories give us, with vivid detail, both the squalidly ordinary and the terrifyingly extraordinary-and make clear how closely the two are linked."-Ben H. Winters, Edgar-Award-Winning author of "The Last Policeman" "Clint Smith's "Ghouljaw" stories use vivid imagery to build intense close-ups that connect reader with character, then adds psychologies corrupted by sex, loss, betrayal, guilt, cowardice, denial, and that fatal flaw pomposity. With sprightly literate language he twists old motifs into new shapes of the rural gothic, often embodied in some of the spookiest "monsters from the id" yet imagined-creatures gory, squishy, bloody, witchy, wild. Not to forget a demonic "dog" that scared the bejesus out of me! The monsters of humanity, too, find new life here, as blood cults, avenging mystics, violent poachers, PTSD, and repressed memories incarnate. Clint Smith's "Ghouljaw" releases into the reader's world a darkness that teaches, shakes, and warns. Read and after a night of tossing sleep you'll awaken changed. For the better? Well, as it is with Smith's characters, that matter's up to you."-Jim Powell, MFA, Senior Lecturer, IUPUI Over the past several years, Clint Smith has established himself as a powerfully imaginative writer of weird fiction. In this first collection of short stories, Smith demonstrates the multifaceted talents that will establish him as one of the notable weird writers of his generation. What distinguishes Smith's work is both the originality of its weird conceptions and its careful delineation of human character. One of his earliest tales, "Benthos," features both these qualities, telling a grim tale of alienated youth and drug-taking that veers into the grotesquely supernatural. In "The Tell-Tale Offal," Smith cleverly updates Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" in a grisly story of physical horror. In "What Happens in Hell Stays in Hell," Smith uses the war in Afghanistan as a chilling backdrop to unthinkable horrors unleashed in the parched sands of the Middle East. "I have no doubt that Clint Smith will be heard from in the future as a leading practitioner of the modern weird tale. The stories in this collection testify not only to his literary potential but to his already significant accomplishments."-From S. T. Joshi's foreword
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614980650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"These smart, unsettling stories give us, with vivid detail, both the squalidly ordinary and the terrifyingly extraordinary-and make clear how closely the two are linked."-Ben H. Winters, Edgar-Award-Winning author of "The Last Policeman" "Clint Smith's "Ghouljaw" stories use vivid imagery to build intense close-ups that connect reader with character, then adds psychologies corrupted by sex, loss, betrayal, guilt, cowardice, denial, and that fatal flaw pomposity. With sprightly literate language he twists old motifs into new shapes of the rural gothic, often embodied in some of the spookiest "monsters from the id" yet imagined-creatures gory, squishy, bloody, witchy, wild. Not to forget a demonic "dog" that scared the bejesus out of me! The monsters of humanity, too, find new life here, as blood cults, avenging mystics, violent poachers, PTSD, and repressed memories incarnate. Clint Smith's "Ghouljaw" releases into the reader's world a darkness that teaches, shakes, and warns. Read and after a night of tossing sleep you'll awaken changed. For the better? Well, as it is with Smith's characters, that matter's up to you."-Jim Powell, MFA, Senior Lecturer, IUPUI Over the past several years, Clint Smith has established himself as a powerfully imaginative writer of weird fiction. In this first collection of short stories, Smith demonstrates the multifaceted talents that will establish him as one of the notable weird writers of his generation. What distinguishes Smith's work is both the originality of its weird conceptions and its careful delineation of human character. One of his earliest tales, "Benthos," features both these qualities, telling a grim tale of alienated youth and drug-taking that veers into the grotesquely supernatural. In "The Tell-Tale Offal," Smith cleverly updates Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" in a grisly story of physical horror. In "What Happens in Hell Stays in Hell," Smith uses the war in Afghanistan as a chilling backdrop to unthinkable horrors unleashed in the parched sands of the Middle East. "I have no doubt that Clint Smith will be heard from in the future as a leading practitioner of the modern weird tale. The stories in this collection testify not only to his literary potential but to his already significant accomplishments."-From S. T. Joshi's foreword
The Skeleton Melodies
Author: Clint Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614982869
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781614982869
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Weird Fiction Review
Author: S. T. Joshi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613472361
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613472361
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
When It's Time for Dead Things to Die
Author: Clint Smith
Publisher: Unnerving
ISBN: 9781989206157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Things are in decline...for Joseph Lowe, a rootless young man who falls for the wrong girl; for Gregory Bath, an aristocratic magnate who spares Lowe an almost certain death for his "transgression," imposing upon him a kind of parasitic servitude. Now working as a line cook at Bath's legendary Tudor Quoin, as well as catering to the growing needs of a man far older than he seems, Lowe desperately seeks release from a trap which has ensnared him for the past nine months. But who could possibly escape a family as powerful, as influential, or as far-reaching as the Baths? In the end, choices must be made, sides must be drawn, and for Lowe this means discovering an unlikely salvation between himself and his captor, as well as learning the true meaning of "family."Clint Smith is the author of 'Ghouljaw and Other Stories, ' a collection of fourteen dark tales which, as Publishers Weekly noted, "range from the poignant and unsettling to the viscerally horrific."
Publisher: Unnerving
ISBN: 9781989206157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Things are in decline...for Joseph Lowe, a rootless young man who falls for the wrong girl; for Gregory Bath, an aristocratic magnate who spares Lowe an almost certain death for his "transgression," imposing upon him a kind of parasitic servitude. Now working as a line cook at Bath's legendary Tudor Quoin, as well as catering to the growing needs of a man far older than he seems, Lowe desperately seeks release from a trap which has ensnared him for the past nine months. But who could possibly escape a family as powerful, as influential, or as far-reaching as the Baths? In the end, choices must be made, sides must be drawn, and for Lowe this means discovering an unlikely salvation between himself and his captor, as well as learning the true meaning of "family."Clint Smith is the author of 'Ghouljaw and Other Stories, ' a collection of fourteen dark tales which, as Publishers Weekly noted, "range from the poignant and unsettling to the viscerally horrific."
As Summer's Mask Slips and Other Disruptions
Author: Gordon B White
Publisher: JournalStone
ISBN: 195030521X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A genderfluid witch in a small Southern town prepares for their Black Cotillion coming out party. Singing worms converge on an old woman and young boy living in a house buried deep underground. Revenge drives an angry spirit through possession after possession in the bare-knuckle boxing ring. A father and son's canoe trip to one of the world's "soft places" culminates in an ecstatic encounter with the Weird. These are just a few of the fifteen stories contained in As Summer's Mask Slips, and Other Disruptions, Gordon B. White's debut collection of horror and Weird fiction.
Publisher: JournalStone
ISBN: 195030521X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
A genderfluid witch in a small Southern town prepares for their Black Cotillion coming out party. Singing worms converge on an old woman and young boy living in a house buried deep underground. Revenge drives an angry spirit through possession after possession in the bare-knuckle boxing ring. A father and son's canoe trip to one of the world's "soft places" culminates in an ecstatic encounter with the Weird. These are just a few of the fifteen stories contained in As Summer's Mask Slips, and Other Disruptions, Gordon B. White's debut collection of horror and Weird fiction.
Pluto In Furs
Author: Scott D Dwyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781074611736
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
From the outer darkness comes Pluto In Furs! An all-original anthology of erotic and unsettling horror. In Pluto In Furs, we explore your most intimate perversions and your most disturbing nightmares and see that they may be the same. An all-star line up of some of the greatest horror writers working today, Pluto In Furs is sure to keep you up late with strange dreams and even stranger desires. This is the next book from Plutonian Press, following the critically acclaimed Phantasm/Chimera. Featuring brilliant cover art from Matthew Revert! Stories by Richard Gavin, Jeffrey Thomas, Devora Gray, Adam Golaski, Kurt Fawver, John Claude Smith, David Peak, Rhys Hughes, Mike Allen, Orrin Grey, Clint Smith, Gemma Files, Thana Niveau, and Brendan Vidito. What strange shapes writhe and moan in the infinite black of space? What aberrant desires and what surreal fantasies do they dream?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781074611736
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
From the outer darkness comes Pluto In Furs! An all-original anthology of erotic and unsettling horror. In Pluto In Furs, we explore your most intimate perversions and your most disturbing nightmares and see that they may be the same. An all-star line up of some of the greatest horror writers working today, Pluto In Furs is sure to keep you up late with strange dreams and even stranger desires. This is the next book from Plutonian Press, following the critically acclaimed Phantasm/Chimera. Featuring brilliant cover art from Matthew Revert! Stories by Richard Gavin, Jeffrey Thomas, Devora Gray, Adam Golaski, Kurt Fawver, John Claude Smith, David Peak, Rhys Hughes, Mike Allen, Orrin Grey, Clint Smith, Gemma Files, Thana Niveau, and Brendan Vidito. What strange shapes writhe and moan in the infinite black of space? What aberrant desires and what surreal fantasies do they dream?
Best Horror of the Year
Author: Ellen Datlow
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1597805750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
For over three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the seventh volume of this series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman Kim Robinson Stephen King Linda Nagata Laird Barron Margo Lanagan And many others With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this “light” creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness, as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers.
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1597805750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
For over three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the seventh volume of this series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman Kim Robinson Stephen King Linda Nagata Laird Barron Margo Lanagan And many others With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this “light” creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness, as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers.
Nightscript
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781725989740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
An annual anthology of strange and darksome tales, which this year profiles the work of 21 contemporary scribes: V.H. Leslie, J.T. Glover, Joanna Parypinski, Steve Rasnic Tem, L.S. Johnson, Daniel Braum, M. Lopes da Silva, Mathew Allan Garcia, April Steenburgh, Charles Wilkinson, Farah Rose Smith, Armel Dagorn, Cate Gardner, Jackson Kuhl, Christi Nogle, Ross Smeltzer, Jennifer Loring, Tim Jeffreys, Elana Gomel, Mike Weitz, Kirsty Logan. "A very promising anthology." -Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of the Year "An annual highlight of the genre." -Anthony Watson, Dark Musings "Weirdness with truth at its heart." -Des Lewis, Real-Time Reviews
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781725989740
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
An annual anthology of strange and darksome tales, which this year profiles the work of 21 contemporary scribes: V.H. Leslie, J.T. Glover, Joanna Parypinski, Steve Rasnic Tem, L.S. Johnson, Daniel Braum, M. Lopes da Silva, Mathew Allan Garcia, April Steenburgh, Charles Wilkinson, Farah Rose Smith, Armel Dagorn, Cate Gardner, Jackson Kuhl, Christi Nogle, Ross Smeltzer, Jennifer Loring, Tim Jeffreys, Elana Gomel, Mike Weitz, Kirsty Logan. "A very promising anthology." -Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of the Year "An annual highlight of the genre." -Anthony Watson, Dark Musings "Weirdness with truth at its heart." -Des Lewis, Real-Time Reviews
Hoosier Public Enemy
Author: John Beineke
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871953536
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
During the bleak days of the Great Depression, news of economic hardship often took a backseat to articles on the exploits of an outlaw from Indiana—John Dillinger. For a period of fourteen months during 1933 and 1934 Dillinger became the most famous bandit in American history, and no criminal since has matched him for his celebrity and notoriety. Dillinger won public attention not only for his robberies, but his many escapes from the law. The escapes he made from jails or “tight spots,” when it seemed law officials had him cornered, became the stuff of legends. While the public would never admit that they wanted the “bad guy” to win, many could not help but root for the man who appeared to be an underdog. Although his crime wave took place in the last century, the name Dillinger has never left the public imagination
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871953536
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
During the bleak days of the Great Depression, news of economic hardship often took a backseat to articles on the exploits of an outlaw from Indiana—John Dillinger. For a period of fourteen months during 1933 and 1934 Dillinger became the most famous bandit in American history, and no criminal since has matched him for his celebrity and notoriety. Dillinger won public attention not only for his robberies, but his many escapes from the law. The escapes he made from jails or “tight spots,” when it seemed law officials had him cornered, became the stuff of legends. While the public would never admit that they wanted the “bad guy” to win, many could not help but root for the man who appeared to be an underdog. Although his crime wave took place in the last century, the name Dillinger has never left the public imagination
Weird Fiction Review #4
Author: S. T. Joshi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613470626
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
- Fourth issue in this prestigious series. - Bob Eggleton cover of Godzilla vs Ghidorah. - Famous Monsters tribute issue.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781613470626
Category : Fantasy fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
- Fourth issue in this prestigious series. - Bob Eggleton cover of Godzilla vs Ghidorah. - Famous Monsters tribute issue.