Behold the Void

*WINNER* 2017 SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF THE YEAR This Is Horror*WINNER* CHARLES DEXTER AWARD - 2017 BEST COLLECTION/ANTHOLOGY OF THE YEAR Strange Aeons"...think vintage King at his best." -- Rue Morgue Magazine"Fracassi...builds his horrific tales slowly and carefully...his powers of description are formidable; and he's especially skillful at creating, and sustaining, suspense." - The New York Times "...recalls the work of writers such as McCammon, King, and Bradbury." - LOCUS Magazine "Philip Fracassi is the next big horror writer to blow your mind." - Lit ReactorIntroduction by Laird BarronBEHOLD THE VOID is nine stories of terror that huddle in the dark space between cosmic horror and the modern weird, between old-school hard-edged horror of the 1980's and the stylistic prose of today's literary giants.Revenge takes a monstrous form when a scorned lover acquires bizarre, telekinetic powers; a community swimming pool on a bright summer day becomes the setting for a ghastly nightmare of sacrifice and loss; a thief does bloody battle with a Yakuza for the soul of a horse god; a priest must solve the mystery of a century-old serial killer or risk the apocalypse; a newly-married couple discover that relationships-gone-bad can be poisonous, and deadly; a child is forced to make an ultimate choice between letting his parents die or living with the monsters they may become; and when a boy is trapped on a beach at low tide, he must face death in many forms - that of the rising water coming to consume him and the ghost of his dead mother who wants him back, reaching for him with dark, longing arms...

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"When you open this collection, you're headed down a dark alley withinthe precincts of the Twilight Zone. It's the kind of place where thewrong people get hurt; hazard is everywhere and it doesn't playfavorites. The complacent won't find refuge here on the threshold of the void. Nobody is safe and nothing is sacred. Enjoy the ride."-- from the introduction by Laird Barron

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