The Wolf at the Door - Softcover

Currier, Jameson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984470700 ISBN 13: 9780984470709

Publisher: Chelsea Station Editions, 2010

Synopsis

From the author of Where the Rainbow Ends and The Haunted Heart comes a witty tour de force of spirits, spooks, and sinners, a supernatural roller coaster set in the Big Easy that is giddy, soulful and sentimental. When a death occurs at Le Petite Paradis, a guesthouse in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the spirit world becomes unsettled, or so Avery Greene Dalyrymple III, the co-owner believes. The son and grandson of Southern evangelists, Avery is also an overworked and overwrought middle-aged gay man, a cynical big-time drinker and sinner fairly certain he can maintain a family of other deviants and delinquents stumbling along Bourbon Street to keep him company. But Avery is also the only person in contact with the spirit world on his property ghosts from the house's origins during the 1820s and he must use the history left behind from another ghost a gay man from the 1970s to find a way to restore peace to his household and rejuvenate his faith.

About this title

About the Author

Jameson Currier is the author of the novel Where the Rainbow Ends and four collections of short stories, most recently The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, which won the Black Quill-Editors' Choice Award for Best Dark Genre Fiction. His gay-themed ghost stories have appeared in Wilde Stories, Unspeakable Horror, Best Gay Stories, Best Gay Romance, Velvet Mafia, Icarus, and All Hallows.

Review

Black Quill Nominee! --Best Small Press Chill

Jameson Currier writes with venomous wit and a huge heart. The Wolf at the Door is the tale everyone should be reading on the beach this year. --Lewis Whittington, Edge

A delightfully spooky, often kooky, gay vision quest. Currier's Avery Dalyrymple is larger-than-life and intricately flawed, and the fact that he just can t seem to get out of his own way makes him primed for misadventure and gay mayhem. One of Currier's strengths has always been the ability to soak his narrative in a rich, authentic ambiance and The Wolf at the Door is no exception, with sentences that resonate with the decadent rhythms of the French Quarter and paragraphs that positively drip with Southern gothic moodiness. Genre fans will find plenty to appreciate in Currier's otherworldly version of It's a Wonderful Life fused with all the ensemble wit of Tales of the City and the regional gothic texture of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. Savor this one like a bowlful of spicy jambalaya and a sniffer of fine aged bourbon on a hot, humid night. --Vince Liaguno, Dark Scribe Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Chelsea Station Editions
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0984470700
• ISBN 13: 9780984470709
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 282