Diese Sammlung des Ungarn Atilla Veres wurde mit ganz großen Worten vorangepriesen, der Einfluss den es aufs Genre haben soll mit den Debütsammlungen von Thomas Ligotti und Laird Barron, aber auch mit Clive Barker verglichen.
Ich habe in den letzten Jahren gelernt, dass Bücher, die mit so großen Vorschusslorbeeren kommen, für mich als Leser nur selten halten, was da versprochen wird.
Trotzdem freue ich mich jetzt schon drauf, mir selbst ein Bild davon zu machen. Und Valancourt Books ist jetzt alles andere als eine schlechte Adresse für gute Bücher. Meine Meinung wird's dann im Anschluss geben, ich mache aber schon einmal den entsprechenden Thread hier auf.
Zum Inhalt:
Every so often a new horror writer bursts onto the scene with a book that is so dazzlingly original, so bone-chillingly terrifying, that it instantly alters the landscape of contemporary horror fiction. Hungarian author Attila Veres’ debut collection The Black Maybe is one of those books.
This volume collects ten of his best tales in English for the first time, ranging from weird fiction like ‘In the Snow, Sleeping’, in which a couple’s vacation to a health spa erodes into a surreal nightmare, to folk horror like ‘Return to the Midnight School’, in which the things that emerge from the soil in one rural farming community are bizarre and horrific, to Lovecraft-inspired tales like ‘Multiplied by Zero’, written as a wry travelogue in which a man sets out on a deadly holiday tour to explore Lovecraftian landscapes. And in the title story ‘The Black Maybe’, which Steve Rasnic Tem calls ‘one of the weirdest tales I’ve read in years’, a girl and her family escape the bustling city to experience farm life, only to discover with unimaginable horror the truth of what is really being harvested there.
These stories are thrilling, frightening, sometimes blackly humorous, and totally unlike anything you have read before. As Tem writes in the introduction, ‘Given both the range and originality of his dark fiction, Attila Veres’ career is one to watch.’ After reading this book, we have no doubt that readers will agree.
Zum Buch:
BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 1954321694
ISBN-13: 978-1954321694
$34.99 US, 310 pp.
Case Laminate Hardcover
Published 2022
BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 1954321708
ISBN-13: 978-1954321700
$18.99 US, 310 pp.
Zum Verlag: https://www.valancourtbooks.com/the-black-maybe.html
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