Thanatrauma
Valancourt Books:
Richmond: 2021
Trade paperback, New,
254 pp.
Cover artwork by: Vince Haig
“Thanatrauma: the dread of it erodes you, the shadows waiting at the end, the impending conclusion, the troubling dream from which you will not wake.
These 21 stories - four published here for the first time - explore some of our fundamental fears: death, loss, grief, and aging. In ‘Reflections in Black,’ a man takes a phantasmagoric Halloween journey in search of a former love. In ‘The Parts Man,’ a man enters a desperate contract with a sinister entity in a long, vintage automobile. The darkly beautiful ‘The Dead Outside My Door’ is a haunting post-apocalyptic tale unlike any you've ever read. Other offerings include ‘Whatever You Want,’ in which a Christmas wish has terrible consequences; ‘Torn,’ a bizarre version of a highly personalized Hell; and ‘The Way Station,’ a tribute to the legendary Stefan Grabinski. Also included is ‘August Freeze,’ from the lost, undistributed Winter 1985 issue of Weird Tales.” This is a print-on-demand edition. #68746
Price: $12.00