Obwohl ich nicht immer alles mag, was John Langan schreibt (selbst bei Fisherman hat einer der Handlungssträng meines Erachtens nach Mängel), so ist er doch in dem, was er macht -- Literary Horror und Weird Fiction -- gut. Manchmal so gar richtig, richtig gut. Seine E.A. Poe-Story Technicolor zum Beispiel halte ich für eine der besten Kurzgeschichten, die ich im heurigen Jahr gelesen hab. Und die Titel-Novelle dieser Sammlung lässt sich schon einmal äußerst vieversprechend an.
Zum Inhalt:
From the award-winning writer of The Fisherman comes a new collection of stories. A pair of disgraced soldiers seek revenge on the man who taught them how to torture. A young lawyer learns the history of the secret that warped her parents’ marriage. A writer arrives at a mansion overlooking the Hudson River to write about the strange paper balloons floating through its grounds. A couple walks a path that shows them their past, present, and terrible future. A woman and her husband discover a cooler on the side of the road whose contents are decidedly unearthly. A man driving cross country has a late-night encounter with a figure claiming to be the Devil. And in the short novel that gives the collection its title, a woman chases a monster in a race against time.
Zum Buch:
- Introduction by Paul Tremblay
- Cover art by Santiago Caruso
- Cover design by Daniel V. Sauer
- Limited hardcover: 500 copies only
- ISBN 978-1-61498-239-5 limited cloth
ISBN 978-1-61498-192-3 trade paper
ISBN 978-1-61498-265-4 ebook
Verlagseite: https://www.hippocampuspress.c…-betrayals-by-john-langan