βI love getting lost in the world (Jeffrey Thomas) creates, and can empathize with the difficulties his characters face, because they are just so real. I envy those of you making your first acquaintance with this author.β β From the introduction by Matthew Carpenter Respected as one of todayβs lea
The endless fall: and other weird fictions
β Scribed by Jeffrey Thomas
- Book ID
- 100403775
- Publisher
- Lovecraft eZine Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 236 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 099669417X
- ASIN
- B06WW9G8VP
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
βI love getting lost in the world (Jeffrey Thomas) creates, and can empathize with the difficulties his characters face, because they are just so real. I envy those of you making your first acquaintance with this author.β β From the introduction by Matthew Carpenter
Respected as one of todayβs leading figures of weird fiction for his striking imagination, versatility, and deeply emotional stories, Jeffrey Thomas here offers up fourteen searing tales. Included are the haunting and surreal "Ghosts in Amber," in which a man is compelled to visit a mysterious derelict factory that harbors chilling secrets; "Jar of Mist," which focuses on a father who, in seeking to understand his daughterβs suicide, encounters a dream-like other realm; "Those Above," which imagines an alternate Victorian society controlled by vast monstrous entities from beyond; and the title novelette "The Endless Fall," which concerns an astronaut who crash-lands on an unknown forested world where time seems to work in an alien way, and where he finds he is unfortunately not alone.
βWith brutal elegance and chilling subtlety, Thomas pulls his readers into his dark visions immediately from every opening line.β β Paul Di Filippo, in ASIMOVβS
βJeffrey Thomasβ imagination is as twisted as it is relentless.β β F. Paul Wilson
βIn time he will, in this reviewerβs opinion, be listed alongside King, Barker, Koontz, and McCammon.β β Brian Keene
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β¦ Subjects
Short Stories
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