The Witnesses Are Gone

✍ Scribed by Lane, Joel

• Book ID: 108786825
• Publisher: PS Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 48 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781906301262

✦ Synopsis

EDITION: Jacketed Hardcover

COVER ART: Vincent Chong

PRINT RUN: 100 signed by Joel Lane and Conrad Williams

INTRODUCTION: Conrad Williams

ISBN: 978-1-906301-26-2

The Witnesses Are Gone is a first-hand account of a journey into the underworld in all the wrong places. Martin Swann, its narrator, moves into an old house and finds a box of videocassettes in the garden shed. One of them has a bootleg copy of a morbid and disturbing film by a little-known French director, Jean Rien.

Martin's search for Rien's other films, and for a way to understand them, draws him away from his home and his lover into a shadow realm of secrets, rituals and encroaching decay. An encounter with a schizoid film journalist in Gravesend leads to a drug-fuelled vision in Paris—and finally to the Mexican desert where a grim revelation awaits him.

The Witnesses Are Gone updates the Orpheus myth for a world losing touch with reality. Blending supernatural horror with eroticism and warped comedy, it takes a look behind the screen on which our collective nightmares play.