Stories by Brian Evenson
April 30, 2012 5.9 x 8.9 176 pages 978-1-56689-298-8
Cormac McCarthy meets The Twilight Zone. A modern-day Hawthorne, Evenson is a writer people will claim they discovered early.
A woman falling out of sync with the world, a kings servant hypnotized by his murderous horse, a transplanted ear with a mind of its ownthe characters in these stories live as interlopers in a world shaped by mysterious disappearances and unfathomable discrepancies between the real and imagined. Evenson, master of literary horror, presents his most far-ranging collection to date, exploring how humans struggle to persist in an increasingly unreal world. Haunting, gripping, and psychologically fierce, these tales illuminate a dark and unsettling side of humanity.
About the Author
Praised by Peter Straub for going furthest out on the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice, Brian Evenson is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes and has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He is also the winner of the International Horror Guild Award and the American Library Associations award for Best Horror Novel, and his work has been named in Time Out New Yorks top books.