Matinee at the Flame

Stephen King says Christopher Fahy ".. is a wonderful writer" and Matinee at the Flame will show you why. Twenty-One stories have been collected here, over half of them appearing for the first time. The previously published stories are being collected here for the first time anywhere. Artist Glenn Chadbourn has created full-page artwork for each story in this collection, as well as the wonderful cover. Matinee at the Flame will take you on many different genre trails. From the Twilight Zone tempered title story, to stories of horror, science fiction, and the fantastic such as: The Blumberg Variations, Night Watch, The Man in Black, A Special Breed, Want, and Carnival to name a few.

From Booklist

Fahy's One Day in the Short Happy Life of Anna Banana and Other Maine Stories (1988) demonstrated that Mainer fiction could be outstanding in more modes than horror, the staple of the state's foremost litterateur, Stephen King. Not, the 22 tales in this book argue, that Fahy can't also write a good creepshow. He writes rather old-fashioned horror, though with up-to-date and even futuristic detail as needed. He prefers third-person omniscience (only three tales here have first-person narrators) and a careful buildup to a pay-off scene or event. His omniscient narrators tend to be humorously condescending toward generally less-than-sympathetic characters. No matter how gruesome the ending, each story (with one exception) evokes a satisfied smile, as a good old Weird Tales yarn or original Twilight Zone episode did. Fittingly, the title story debuted in volume 1 of Twilight Zone Magazine; such others as "Randall Rodgers Reinvented," "The Real Thing," and "Carnival," with their reversal endings, are prime TZ stuff, too. Pretty marvelous entertainment. Ray OlsonCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

From the Inside Flap

Christopher Fahy's first-ever short story collection of the fantastic is here, Matinee at the Flame. Christopher Fahy's novel Fever 42 was released to major critical acclaim last year. On the heels of that acclaim, we're about to let you see another side of Christopher Fahy, who Stephen King says .. is a wonderful writer. Matinee at the Flame will take you on many different genre trails. From the Twilight Zone tempered title story, to stories of horror, science fiction, and the fantastic such as: The Blumberg Variations, Night Watch, The Man in Black, A Special Breed, Want, and Carnival

About the Author

Christopher Fahy is the author of fifteen novels including Fever 42, Eternal Bliss, The Fly Must Die, Dream House, The Night Flyer, and Limerock a collection of Maine short fiction. His short fiction has appeared in The Twilight Zone Magazine, Cat Crimes, Predators, Night Screams, Gallery, Santa Clues, The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem, Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, to name just a few.

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