George Zebrowski

Black Pockets (eBook, ePUB)

And Other Dark Thoughts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this masterful collection of horror stories, George Zebrowski divides these nineteen tales into personal, political, and metaphysical terrors-stories to scare you individually, stories to frighten you as a social animal, and stories that should terrify the entire human race. In "I Walked with Fidel," a young man encounters a once politically powerful zombie; "Jumper" focuses on a young woman with a dark and troubled past, while in "The Coming of Christ the Joker," the lighthearted banter of a celebrity TV talk show becomes something far more serious. "A Piano Full of Dead Spiders" is an eerie story of genius, its demands, and its delusions; in "Passing Nights," the truth behind a recurring nightmare is revealed; "The Soft Terrible Music" depicts a man who must hide his past even from himself. And in the title story, the novella "Black Pockets," Zebrowski asks: What happens to a man when his desire for revenge becomes all-consuming? With an introduction by Howard Waldrop and an afterword by the author, George Zebrowski reveals himself in Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughtsas a writer who can play on our more disturbing emotions even as he impels us to deeper thoughts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 682
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781480494824
• Artikelnr.: 44360498

Autorenporträt

George Zebrowski's more than forty books include novels, short fiction collections, anthologies, and a collection of essays. His short fiction, articles, and essays have appeared in Omnimagazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, Amazing Stories,the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Interzone, Science Fiction Age, Nature, the Bertrand Russell Society News, and many other publications. "Heathen God" was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1972. Brute Orbits (1998), an uncompromising novel about the future of the penal system, was honored with the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and Stranger Suns (1991) was a New York Times Notable Book.