For the Stephen King fan in the house: an author as capable, if a touch less prolific.” -Kirkus Reviews They operate in psychological territory, never relying on grossness or slasher silliness to convey their scariness. “Evenson’s stories, small masterworks of literary horror, are elegantly tense. “Evenson’s fiction is equal parts obsessive, experimental, and violent. To purchase this title for use with a screen reader please call (612) 338-0125 or email us at of the stories here evoke Kafka, some Poe, some Beckett, some Roald Dahl, and one, a demonic teddy-bear chiller called ‘BearHeart™,’ even Stephen King, but Evenson’s deadpan style always estranges them a bit from their models: He tells his odd tales oddly, as if his mouth were dry and the words won’t come out right.” -New York Times Sunday Book Review Thanks to a 2013 ADA Access Improvement Grant administered by VSA Minnesota for the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, this title is also formatted for screen readers which make text accessible to the blind and visually impaired.

He is also the winner of the International Horror Guild Award and the American Library Association’s award for Best Horror Novel, and his work has been named in Time Out New York’s top books. Henry Prizes and has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Praised by Peter Straub for going “furthest out on the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice,” Brian Evenson is the recipient of three O. In these stories, Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary-the terror of living with the knowledge of all we cannot know. 978-1-56689-413-5 With minimalist literary horror, Brian Evenson’s stories work a nightmare axis of doubt, paranoia, and every day life.Ī stuffed bear’s heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby, Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive, and in a mine on another planet, the dust won’t stop seeping in.

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