Swift to Chase Contributor(s): Barron, Laird (Author) |
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ISBN: 1945373067 ISBN-13: 9781945373060 Publisher: JournalStone OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) |
Dewey: 813.6 |
LCCN: 2016949884 |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.30 lbs) 298 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Introduction by Paul Tremblay Publishers Weekly top ten list for most anticipated horror/Scifi Fall 2016 releases. Laird Barron's fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan wilderness, far-future dystopias, and giallo-fueled nightmare vistas. All hell breaks loose in a massive apartment complex when a modern day Jack the Ripper strikes under cover of a blizzard; a woman, famous for surviving a massacre, hits the road to flee the limelight and finds her misadventures have only begun; while tracking a missing B-movie actor, a team of man hunters crashes in the Yukon Delta and soon realize the Arctic is another name for hell; an atomic-powered cyborg war dog loyally assists his master in the overthrow of a far-future dystopian empire; following an occult initiation ritual, a man is stalked by a psychopathic sorority girl and her team of horrifically disfigured henchmen; a rich lunatic invites several high school classmates to his mansion for a night of sex, drugs, and CIA-funded black ops experiments; and other glimpses into occulted realities a razor's slice beyond our own. Combining hardboiled noir, psychological horror, and the occult, Swift to Chase continues three-time Shirley Jackson Award winner Barron's harrowing inquiry into the darkness of the human heart. |