This new collection of sixteen tales uncovers the strangeness within everyday America, the fable in the familiar. The Highwall Horror sees an office worker discover the portal to an alien cathedral in a cubicle wall; in Panorama an artists agent examines his clients deserted masterpiece; a young man
In Strange Gardens and Other Stories
β Scribed by Stamm, Peter
- Publisher
- Other Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-ca
- Weight
- 102 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781590514108
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