Taylor Grant

The Dark at the End of the Tunnel

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Produktbeschreibung

Offered for the first time in a collected format, this selection features ten gripping and darkly imaginative stories by Taylor Grant, a Bram Stoker Award ® nominated author and rising star in the suspense and horror genres. Discover what happens when: - A wealthy industrialist awakens after ten years in suspended animation, and finds out that the horrors of the past can never be left behind. - A lonely man realizes that he’s gradually vanishing from existence, into a nightmarish limbo of his own making. - An author stumbles upon an incomplete manuscript by his deceased father, and makes the grave mistake of trying to complete the story. - A woman learns that the imaginary voices that haunt the delusional and criminally insane are, in fact, real. Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing. This remarkable collection of short fiction exposes the terrors that hide beneath the surface of our ordinary world, behind people’s masks of normalcy, and lurking in the shadows at the farthest reaches of the universe. "A master class in storytelling…one of the best collections of the last ten years." – Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award Winner, Dead City, The Dead Won't Die "… so full of talent and commitment, that it is an inspiration." – Dennis Etchison, Two-time World Fantasy Award Winner, The Dark Country "A bold and unsettling new voice in suspense and horror." – Scott Nicholson, Bestselling thriller author, The Red Church "… a cornucopia of horror from a master of the genre!" – Tim Waggoner, Eat The Night, The Way of All Flesh "…written with the precise-concise language of a poet. Each story has an almost perfect closure…." – Gene O’Neill, Bram Stoker Award Winner, The Cal Wild Chronicles, The Hitchhiking Effect "Grant is a writer who never fails to engage. Frankly, his stories frighten me…" – Christopher Ransom, International Bestselling Author, The Birthing House, The Fading "…beautifully crafted tales… a depth and humanity of which we all can relate." – John Claude Smith, Riding the Centipede, Autumn in the Abyss "As classic, elegant, deadly effective and efficient as a switchblade." – John Palisano, Bram Stoker Award Finalist, Dust of the Dead, Nerves "A master at balancing pure dread, raw untethered emotion, and brilliant characters." – Robert S. Wilson, Bram Stoker Award nominated editor, author of Empire of Blood series. "Grant picks away at your worst fears…the bogeyman finally has a name..." – David Owain Hughes, Walled In, White Walls and Straightjackets

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Crystal Lake Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9780994679338
• ISBN-10: 0994679335
• Artikelnr.: 44114567

Autorenporträt

Born in 1970, in Phoenix, Arizona, Taylor Grant was a two-time Bram Stoker Award nominated author, professional screenwriter, actor, and award-winning filmmaker. His work has been seen on network television, the big screen, the stage and the web, in newspapers, comic books, national magazines and anthologies, and heard on the radio. He started his career in children's entertainment, serving as a staff writer and development consultant for multiple production companies working on various projects, including Beetlejuice, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Bad Dog, and Monster Farm, which he created and co-developed for television. As development executive at Stan Lee Media, Taylor worked closely with the iconic creator, co-developing multiple web animated series, including The Backstreet Project, The Accuser, The Drifter, and The 7th Portal. In recent years, as Head of Global Animation at Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, Taylor executive produced the animated TV series Lore Olympus with The Jim Henson Company and served as a Business Development Lead on the global hit anime series Tower of God, as well as The God of High School. He also produced the horror feature film Gremoryland, alongside Roy Lee and Vertigo Entertainment, and wrote and produced the #1 horror series Rot & Ruin, a WEBTOON comic adaptation of the New York Times Bestselling novel by Jonathan Maberry. He wrote and produced two short films The Vanished and Sticks and Stones, which screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and received distribution through Sony and Shorts TV.As an author Taylor shared pages with Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, and many of the top writers in speculative fiction, with short fiction published in Cemetery Dance Magazine, Weird Tales, The Siren's Call and Weirdbook and in numerous anthologies. His first collection of short stories, The Dark at the End of the Tunnel (2015, Crystal Lake Publishing), became an instant Amazon bestseller and was nominated for two Bram Stoker Awards, for 'Best Collection' and for 'Best Short Story' ('The Infected'). His second collection, The Many Deaths of Cole Parker was published in 2020 by Running Wild Press. The Shuddering Breath Before Oblivion, a final tribute to Taylor, collects the last of his short fiction. Taylor died on September 12th, 2024.