Synchronized Sleepwalking

To sleep, perchance to dream... And in dreaming lies the danger! With Martin Mundt as your dangerous Dream Master, in the 27 tales within, you’ll visit places dark and places strange. You’ll live dreams both oddly hilarious and eerily heart-wrenching. From a couple with a fetish for fireworks to a tower of words that reaches to the sky and beyond... from a dominatrix with a perverted parrot to a triptych of El Pollo tales of fowl revenge... from an ex-girlfriend who’d make Kathy Bates’ character in Misery seem like a good time girl to a Lovecraftian descent into the darkest magic... These dreams will kidnap your imagination and take you to places you’ve never dared before to see. Hide all the sharp objects in your bedroom and prepare for some serious Sleepwalking... TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction (by John Everson) A Bird in Hand The Girl With a Motorcycle for a Heart Breathless He Passed Himself Away The Pale Blue Zenith of the Sky Chair Skinny Bones Lost Dog The Once-Upon-A-Time King Flying Live Poultry El Pollo The Chicken Killers Still Live With Walls Boom The Time I Didn't Meet Christopher Walken That is the Man, Said the Boy Summer of Love And Death Came Down Like Moonlit Frost The Camera Loves Her The Black House To Continue Forever Honk Wet With Me The Scrimshaw Museum Anniversary The Falling of Astronauts Like Rain About the Author

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"Martin Mundt is a nasty, warped, zero-temperature so-and-so who can't put two words together without first snickering, then slitting their throats. No wonder reading him is such a pleasure." Peter Straub, author of Floating Dragon "The Crawling Abattoir is creepy and ooky and funny and spooky and a great laugh as much as it is full of terrible dark thoughts and raucous gore." Dreadful Tales "This darkly comedic satire is enjoyably novel in its depiction of a world where the walking dead are more likable and lively than many of the living." Publishers Weekly review of Reanimated Americans

About the Author

Martin Mundt has published one novel, Reanimated Americans, and two previous collections of short stories, The Crawling Abattoir and The Dark Underbelly of Hymns, which are both available from Dark Arts Books. His novella, The Cranston Gibberer, was published by Bad Moon Books. Seven of his short stories have received Honorable Mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies. He lives in Skokie, Illinois, and can be found in the glittering caves of cyberspace at www.martinmundt.com and on Facebook and Twitter.

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