"Houarner, always a maestro of the smart horror tale, further hones his art in this scary provocative nod to The Thousand and One Nights and other ancient traditions of phantasmal story-telling. Chock full the macabre and populated by the arabesque horrors of a culture far older than ours, this grea
In the Country of Dreaming Caravans
โ Scribed by Houarner, Gerard
- Book ID
- 110446866
- Publisher
- Necro Publications
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 78 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781944703394
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โฆ Synopsis
"Houarner, always a maestro of the "smart" horror tale, further hones his art in this scary provocative nod to The Thousand and One Nights and other ancient traditions of phantasmal story-telling. Chock full the macabre and populated by the arabesque horrors of a culture far older than ours, this great new work by Houarner is a Must Read for all venturers into weird fiction."โ Edward Lee, author of White Trash Gothic and City Infernal__________________________________Once and now, a little girl who plays with ghosts and spirits is lost in the desert...No family, no friends, just memories of an old life in a world of cities and cars, and a head full of visions and dreams that don't belong in the world.She likes to tell stories.She stinks of camel.Once, she will say, "The scorpion was not always a creature of pain, just as each of us was not always what we have become."Many times, she wonders what she is worth to the living who sell her, buy and steal her, to the spirits and ghosts...
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