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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. TRIAL RUN From Calder Ash, author of The Recall Threshold How many versions of you would die to keep living? Oliver Vale is terrified of death.Since losing his mother to cancer, every headache feels like a warning. Every missed heartbeat feels like a countdown. Desperate for relief, he signs up for Trial Run, a revolutionary therapy that promises to help people confront mortality through a fully immersive simulated death experience.For forty-five minutes, Oliver will experience his own death.Then he'll wake up cured.Instead, he wakes up in the wrong life.His flat isn't quite the same. His closest friend remembers a different past. His father is living somewhere he has never been. At first, the differences are small enough to ignore.Until Oliver discovers that Trial Run was never designed to treat fear.It was designed to break the barriers between realities.As the truth behind the experiment unravels, Oliver finds himself trapped between competing versions of existence, pursued by the brilliant and ruthless scientist who started it all. To find his way home, he must answer a terrifying question: If a better version of your life exists somewhere else. do you have the right to take it? Trial Run is a gripping psychological sci-fi thriller about grief, identity, and the dangerous temptation to outrun death. From the author of The Recall Threshold, another dark and thought-provoking tale exploring memory, consciousness, and the fragile nature of reality. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Daniel Mercer is always late.Late to meetings.Late to commitments.Late to the moments that matter most.So when he begins arriving five minutes early, he knows something is wrong.At first, it feels like chance. Then intuition. Then obligation. Each time Daniel arrives early, a life is saved-a stranger pulled back from traffic, a fire interrupted, a child rescued just before it's too late. The pattern is precise. Unforgiving. And it will not let him choose when to stop.As the interval narrows around him, Daniel is forced to confront what those five minutes really mean: whether foresight is a gift or a debt, whether redemption can be claimed through sacrifice, and whether time offers mercy-or only reveals who we are when excuses run out.The Five-Minute Interval is a morally charged work of speculative fiction about grief, responsibility, and the cost of being just in time. Quiet, tense, and deeply human, it asks a single question with increasing urgency: What are you willing to do when you know what comes next?Time is not interesting until it becomes ethical. Calder Ash writes speculative fiction that examines identity, memory, and moral choice under pressure. His stories explore the quiet horror of systems that promise certainty, and the human cost of arriving too late, or too early, to the truth. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Daniel Mercer is always late.Late to meetings.Late to commitments.Late to the moments that matter most.So when he begins arriving five minutes early, he knows something is wrong.At first, it feels like chance. Then intuition. Then obligation. Each time Daniel arrives early, a life is saved-a stranger pulled back from traffic, a fire interrupted, a child rescued just before it's too late. The pattern is precise. Unforgiving. And it will not let him choose when to stop.As the interval narrows around him, Daniel is forced to confront what those five minutes really mean: whether foresight is a gift or a debt, whether redemption can be claimed through sacrifice, and whether time offers mercy-or only reveals who we are when excuses run out.The Five-Minute Interval is a morally charged work of speculative fiction about grief, responsibility, and the cost of being just in time. Quiet, tense, and deeply human, it asks a single question with increasing urgency: What are you willing to do when you know what comes next Time is not interesting until it becomes ethical. Calder Ash writes speculative fiction that examines identity, memory, and moral choice under pressure. His stories explore the quiet horror of systems that promise certainty, and the human cost of arriving too late, or too early, to the truth.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - TRIAL RUN From Calder Ash, author of The Recall Threshold How many versions of you would die to keep living Oliver Vale is terrified of death.Since losing his mother to cancer, every headache feels like a warning. Every missed heartbeat feels like a countdown. Desperate for relief, he signs up for Trial Run, a revolutionary therapy that promises to help people confront mortality through a fully immersive simulated death experience.For forty-five minutes, Oliver will experience his own death.Then he'll wake up cured.Instead, he wakes up in the wrong life.His flat isn't quite the same. His closest friend remembers a different past. His father is living somewhere he has never been. At first, the differences are small enough to ignore.Until Oliver discovers that Trial Run was never designed to treat fear.It was designed to break the barriers between realities.>If a better version of your life exists somewhere else. do you have the right to take it Trial Run is a gripping psychological sci-fi thriller about grief, identity, and the dangerous temptation to outrun death. From the author of The Recall Threshold, another dark and thought-provoking tale exploring memory, consciousness, and the fragile nature of reality. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Horror begins where the boundary between self and world collapses. Blood escapes. Skin opens. A corpse remains after the person is gone. We are not souls temporarily housed in flesh-we are organisms that generate a sense of self, and that self depends on constantly rejecting the very matter of which it is made.In The Abject, Calder Ash offers a sustained, unflinching philosophical and cultural inquiry into this disturbance. Drawing on Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror, the book tracks the abject through its most insistent material forms-blood, vomit, feces, pus, rot, the corpse, mutilation, parasites, fungus, infection, cannibalism, pregnancy, transformation, aging, and disease. Each is examined as a crisis of containment that reveals the self not as a sealed interior but as a provisional pattern in a continuum of exchange.From the border of the skin to the technologies of abjection in film and literature, from Lovecraft's cosmic exteriors to Cronenberg's rewriting of the flesh, Ash shows how horror refuses the cultural labor of concealment. The result is both a diagnostic of the human condition as lived through the body and a radical reorientation: we were never souls in containers. We are meat, membrane, microbial community, and temporary organization-matter that has briefly become capable of experiencing itself as a person.When the packaging is stripped away, what remains is not alien. It is us.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Daniel Mercer is always late.Late to meetings.Late to commitments.Late to the moments that matter most.So when he begins arriving five minutes early, he knows something is wrong.At first, it feels like chance. Then intuition. Then obligation. Each time Daniel arrives early, a life is saved-a stranger pulled back from traffic, a fire interrupted, a child rescued just before it's too late. The pattern is precise. Unforgiving. And it will not let him choose when to stop.As the interval narrows around him, Daniel is forced to confront what those five minutes really mean: whether foresight is a gift or a debt, whether redemption can be claimed through sacrifice, and whether time offers mercy-or only reveals who we are when excuses run out.The Five-Minute Interval is a morally charged work of speculative fiction about grief, responsibility, and the cost of being just in time. Quiet, tense, and deeply human, it asks a single question with increasing urgency: What are you willing to do when you know what comes next?Time is not interesting until it becomes ethical. Calder Ash writes speculative fiction that examines identity, memory, and moral choice under pressure. His stories explore the quiet horror of systems that promise certainty, and the human cost of arriving too late, or too early, to the truth. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. TRIAL RUN From Calder Ash, author of The Recall Threshold How many versions of you would die to keep living? Oliver Vale is terrified of death.Since losing his mother to cancer, every headache feels like a warning. Every missed heartbeat feels like a countdown. Desperate for relief, he signs up for Trial Run, a revolutionary therapy that promises to help people confront mortality through a fully immersive simulated death experience.For forty-five minutes, Oliver will experience his own death.Then he'll wake up cured.Instead, he wakes up in the wrong life.His flat isn't quite the same. His closest friend remembers a different past. His father is living somewhere he has never been. At first, the differences are small enough to ignore.Until Oliver discovers that Trial Run was never designed to treat fear.It was designed to break the barriers between realities.As the truth behind the experiment unravels, Oliver finds himself trapped between competing versions of existence, pursued by the brilliant and ruthless scientist who started it all. To find his way home, he must answer a terrifying question: If a better version of your life exists somewhere else. do you have the right to take it? Trial Run is a gripping psychological sci-fi thriller about grief, identity, and the dangerous temptation to outrun death. From the author of The Recall Threshold, another dark and thought-provoking tale exploring memory, consciousness, and the fragile nature of reality. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Death is supposed to end something.The body stops. The person disappears. The relationship closes. The dead become memory, ancestor, name-or nothing at all.Yet across every culture and era, the dead refuse to stay dead.From the restless corpses of medieval Europe to the aristocratic vampire, the mindless zombie horde, the preserved mummy, the sacred relic, the lingering ghost, the deliberate lich, and the newest figure of all-the digital replica trained on a life's data that still answers in a familiar voice-this book traces the long, unsettling history of unfinished death.Calder Ash shows that the undead are not primarily monsters of horror. They are cultural diagnostics. They appear whenever biological death fails to produce the social, psychological, relational, or symbolic endings a society requires. A corpse that walks signals unfinished business. A vampire that feeds reveals appetite that outlives the body. A zombie that shambles exposes the terror of biology without personhood. A ghost externalizes memory and guilt. A digital model that says 'I remember' forces ancient questions of identity into the age of artificial intelligence.Moving across folklore, religion, medicine, literature, film, philosophy, and emerging technology, The Dead That Don't Stay Dead maps a spectrum of persistence: residual bodies, residual subjectivities, residual institutions, residual empires, and residual patterns running in code. It asks what we actually want from immortality, why endless life so often appears as a curse, and how cultures have always negotiated the remainder that death leaves behind.The dead have never simply vanished. Language survives speakers. Institutions survive founders. Photographs survive faces. And now models survive minds. This book is a cultural history of that refusal-and of the newest, most intimate forms it is taking.A rigorous, wide-ranging, and deeply original inquiry into why the boundary between the living and the dead has never been as clean as we pretend.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Someone sits alone in the dark, heart racing, muscles tensed, watching a fictional murder unfold-and then says, with genuine satisfaction: 'That was great.'Why does an organism built to detect and escape danger deliberately seek out representations of the very things that would kill it Why do we pay money, allocate evenings, and invent ever more immersive technologies just to feel afraid under controlled conditions Why We Want to Be Afraid is a rigorous, wide-ranging investigation of that paradox. Drawing on Aristotle's original question about the pleasure of tragic suffering, Burke's and Kant's theories of the sublime, Freud's uncanny, Kristeva's abject, contemporary neuroscience of threat detection, and the evolving forms of horror from the Gothic novel through slashers, found footage, true crime, creepypasta, video games, and virtual reality, Calder Ash maps the strange territory of 'safe terror.'The book argues that the pleasure of horror lives in a narrow, carefully maintained gap:I am afraid.I know I am safe.I enjoy being afraid.In that dual awareness-threat signals firing while the mind simultaneously registers the frame of fiction, play, or elective exposure-fear is relocated from survival emergency to structured experience. We do not seek isolated terror. We seek the full arc of anticipation, escalation, confrontation, and the distinctive pleasure of surviving it.From the predictive brain's exploitation of ambiguous cues, to the retained control that makes approach possible, to the cosmic indifference that removes the human safety net, Ash shows how horror functions as a technology for temporarily abandoning the assumption that reality is safe, intelligible, predictable, and under our control-and then returning. The return is essential. The residual unease is part of the point.Clear-eyed, philosophically grounded, and written with the momentum of the best cultural criticism, Why We Want to Be Afraid is essential reading for anyone who has ever loved a horror film, a ghost story, a scary game, or the peculiar satisfaction of walking out of the dark knowing the monster stayed behind.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - You have been there.A school after midnight. An empty mall under fluorescent lights. A hotel corridor at 3 a.m. A parking garage that feels endless. Nothing is broken. Nothing is overtly threatening. And yet the place feels wrong-as if the building itself has slipped out of its proper category and is now waiting for something that will never arrive.Liminality: The Horror of Being Between Things is a sustained exploration of that precise sensation. Drawing on anthropology (Victor Turner and the 'betwixt and between'), cognitive science (prediction error and the brain's hunger for categories), architecture, digital culture, and the long tradition of the uncanny, Calder Ash maps the quiet dread that arises whenever stable classifications fail.From physical thresholds and empty institutional spaces to adolescence, the stranger, the doppelgänger, the undead, dreams, the dead internet, and the artificial person who may or may not be a person, the book shows that liminality is not a niche aesthetic. It is a structural feature of existence. We are comfortable only when we know what things are, where they are, and what they are supposed to be doing. Horror begins the moment those coordinates slip.Clear, rigorous, and written with the cool precision of its subject, Liminality turns the viral language of 'liminal spaces' into a full philosophical and cultural investigation. It is for readers who have felt the wrongness of an empty concourse, the unease of a repeating corridor, or the categorical vibration of an AI conversation-and want to understand why.We are all, in one way or another, between things.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Dead That Don't Stay Dead | Calder Ash | Taschenbuch | Anatomies of Fear | Englisch | 2026 | NBM House | EAN 9798237598155 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Why We Want To Be Afraid | Calder Ash | Taschenbuch | Anatomies of Fear | Englisch | 2026 | NBM House | EAN 9798237003451 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Liminality | Calder Ash | Taschenbuch | Anatomies of Fear | Englisch | 2026 | NBM House | EAN 9798237567205 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Nothing has to hate us for us to be insignificant.That single recognition sits at the heart of cosmic horror-and at the heart of this book.The Cosmic Horror of Being Human traces the centuries-long collapse of the human-sized universe. From Copernicus's moving Earth to Darwin's animal continuum, from deep time's geological abyss to Freud's stranger inside the psyche, from Nietzsche's death of guaranteed meaning to Einstein's curved spacetime and the quantum world's refusal of classical intuition, Calder Ash maps the successive decenterings that stripped humanity of spatial privilege, biological exceptionalism, temporal centrality, psychological sovereignty, and metaphysical underwriting.At the pivotal node stands H. P. Lovecraft, the writer who converted this cumulative intellectual trajectory into fiction of permanent imaginative force. Yet the book does not stop with the Mythos. It follows the same logic into evolutionary psychology's view of perception as a fitness-tuned dashboard, neuroscience's portrait of the brain as an alien predictive machine, the emergence of substrate-independent intelligence, and the speculative possibility that the experienced world itself is an interface.The result is neither adolescent nihilism nor consolatory mysticism. Cosmic horror, Ash argues, does not claim that nothing matters. It claims only that nothing guarantees that what matters to us matters universally. Local meaning remains possible; cosmic endorsement does not.Clear-eyed, rigorously argued, and written with literary precision, The Cosmic Horror of Being Human is both a history of ideas and a philosophical confrontation with the present. It asks the question the modern period has made unavoidable:What kind of beings are we in a universe that does not exist for us For readers of Lovecraft, Ligotti, Thomas Nagel, Nick Bostrom, and anyone who has ever felt the night sky press back against human scale.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Cosmic Horror Of Being Human | Calder Ash | Taschenbuch | Anatomies of Fear | Englisch | 2026 | NBM House | EAN 9798233795725 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. ANATOMIES OF FEAR | Calder Ash | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | NBM House | EAN 9798237088328 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.