by Lucius Shepard
(Burton, MI): Subterranean Press, 2013.
First edition, first printing: Special limited signed edition.
Number 47 of 250 copies bound in leather and SIGNED by the author.
Contains publisher's "first edition" statement to the copyright page.
Fine in a fine dust jacket with wraparound cover art by J.K. Potter.
"Ditch Witch,” set in rural Oregon, concerns a young man on the run in a
stolen car, a hitchhiker who may or may not have witch-like powers, and
the bizarre inhabitants of the seemingly innocuous Elfland Motel. “The
Flock” is a tale of high school football and small town malaise set
against an impossible intrusion from the natural world. A washed-up
actor and a Malaysian “woman of power” stand at the center of “Vacancy,”
the account of a man forced to confront the very real demons of his
past. “Dog-eared Paperback of My Life” follows a writer (Thomas Cradle)
on his erotically charged journey down the Mekong River, a journey
enveloped in a maze of multiple, interpenetrating realities. “Halloween
Town” tells the story of a small, extremely strange town and one of its
denizens, Clyde Ormoloo, a man who sees too deeply into the “terrible
incoherence” of human affairs. The final story, “Rose Street
Attractors,” takes us into 19th century London and the heart of the
steampunk era—in the richly atmospheric tale of a most unusual haunting.
Rounding out this generous volume is an Introduction in which Shepard
offers a startlingly frank assessment of his own troubled adolescence,
identifying the “alternate versions” of himself that appear in these
pages and illuminating those points at which fiction and
“near-autobiography” converge."--publisher's blurb.
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