After the People Lights Have Gone Off

WINNER, Best Collection of the Year, THIS IS HORRORNOMINATED, Best Collection of the Year, BRAM STOKER AWARDSNOMINATED, Best Collection of the Year, SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARDSThe fifteen stories in After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones explore the horrors and fears of the supernatural and the everyday. Included are two original stories, several rarities and out of print narratives, as well as a few "best of the year" inclusions. In "Thirteen," horrors lurk behind the flickering images on the big screen. "Welcome to the Reptile House" reveals the secrets that hide in our flesh. In "The Black Sleeve of Destiny," a single sweatshirt leads to unexpectedly dark adventures. And the title story, "After the People Lights Have Gone Off," is anything but your typical haunted house story.With an introduction by Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale, and featuring fifteen full-page illustrations by Luke Spooner, After the People Lights Have Gone Off gets under your skin and stays there.Table of Contents:Introduction by Joe R. LansdaleIllustrations by Luke SpoonerThirteenBrushdogsWelcome to the Reptile HouseThis is LoveThe Spindly ManThe Black Sleeve of DestinyThe Spider Box (originalSnow MonstersDoc’s StoryThe Dead Are NotXebicoSecond ChancesAfter the People Lights Have Gone OffUncleSolve for X

Matt Bell, In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods

"Stephen Graham Jones is a great devourer of stories, chewing up horror novels and detective stories and weird fiction, ingesting literature of every type and pedigree, high and low and everything in between. His stories betray his encyclopedic knowledge of genre and of storytelling, but what makes After the People Lights Have Gone Off unique is how Jones never rests among his influences, going beyond what other writers might dare to craft terrors and triumphs all his own."

Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

"If I've read better horror writers than Jones, I've forgotten them. He's at the apex of his game. After the People Lights Have Gone Off is the kind of collection that lodges in your brain like a malignant grain of an evil dream. And it's just going to be there, forever."

Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Fall of Night and Bad Blood

“Stephen Graham Jones is a true master of the horror short story. Inventive, quirky, unexpected and masterful.”

About the Author

Stephen Graham Jones is the author of fifteen novels and five collections, and has some two hundred stories published. Stephen's been an NEA Fellow and has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction and the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural fiction. He's forty-two, married with a couple of kids, and lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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