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Synopsis
This collection of 19 horror stories, culled from the career of a writer best known for his literary science fiction, explores horror as a product of the human mind by allowing personal, political, and metaphysical obsessions to unleash terrors that beset these characters and by refusing to rely on genre-typical terrors such as serial killers and ancient curses. The original novella "Black Pockets" depicts a hate so all-consuming that a man makes a bargain to carry out the revenge plot of a dying enemy in order to gain the power to pursue his own victims. In unusual zombie tale, "I Walked with Fidel," Fidel Castro's ideals are slowly betrayed by both Cold War superpowers. And a Kafka-like uneasiness pervades "A Piano Full of Dead Spiders," in which a composer's music actually is the result of spiders walking on piano strings. Posing as philosophical puzzles, the stories gain emotional power from an attention to character development and the insightful investigation of both private and collective nightmares.
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About the Author
George Zebrowski is the author of 'Macrolif', 'Cave of Stars', and 'Brute Orbits', which won the 1999 John W Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year. He lives in Delmar, New York.
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Octavo, boards. First edition. A collection of nineteen horror stories, including the novella "Black Pockets," first published here, with an introduction by Howard Waldrop. The eighteen other stories appear here in the author's preferred text. 2000 copies printed. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced $24.95 on the front flap. (#174054). Seller Inventory # 174054