Die aktuellste Sammlung eines jener Weird Fiction-Schriftsteller, die in den letzten Jahren schnell zu meinen Lieblingen avanciert sind.
Brian Evenson nimmt sich ganz klassischer Genre-Tropen an, spielt sie aber über ein dichtes Setting und eine eigene Stimme auf seine ganz persönliche Art aus. Ich habe inzwischen drei Sammlungen von ihm gelesen, und es ist keine einzige schlechte Geschichte dabeigewesen.
Zum Thema: https://www.tor.com/2019/06/12…-unraveling-of-the-world/
FROM A MODERN MASTER OF THE FORM, A NEW SHORT STORY COLLECTION THAT DEXTEROUSLY WALKS THE TIGHTROPE BETWEEN LITERARY FICTION, SCI-FI, AND HORROR.
A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient’s room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses—whether we know it or not.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Brian Evenson is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes and has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He is also the winner of the International Horror Guild Award and the American Library Association’s award for Best Horror Novel, and his work has been named in Time Out New York’s top books.
Zum Buch: https://coffeehousepress.org/p…e-unraveling-of-the-world