Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders - Softcover

Barker, Clive; Gaiman, Neil; Campbell, Ramsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1640074732 ISBN 13: 9781640074736

Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Want to see something weird? Embrace the odd. Satisfy your curiosity. Surrender to wonder.

From Crystal Lake Publishing and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated co-editor of the smash hit Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories comes Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders.

Sixteen stories and two poems take you into the spaces between the ordinary--and the imaginations of some of today's masters of dark and thrilling fiction.

• A travel writer learns the terrible secrets at a hotel that's not at all as it seems.
• A disfigured woman and her daughter explore methods of weaponizing beauty.
• An amateur beekeeper acquires an object that shows her the true
  danger of the hive-mind.
• Drifters ride the rails seeking something wondrous that could change their fates forever.
• A strange creature that holds our very existence in its hands shapes the lives of two lovers to touching and devastating effect.
• A young man helps his grandfather--and something much more monstrous--atone for bargains made during wartime.
• And much, much more...

Featuring Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Morton, Brian Kirk, Hal Bodner, Stephanie M. Wytovich, John Langan, Erinn L. Kemper, John F.D. Taff, Patrick Freivald, Lucy A. Snyder, Brian Hodge, Kristi DeMeester, Christopher Coake, Sarah Read and Richard Thomas. Foreword by Josh Malerman. Illustrations by Luke Spooner. Cover art by John Coulthart.

Brought to you by Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor Doug Murano and Crystal Lake Publishing. Tales from the Darkest Depths.

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Review

"Having enjoyed Gutted: Beautiful horror stories, I jumped at the opportunity to take an early look at Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders. As was the case with Gutted, I wasn't disappointed. Edited by Doug Murano, Behold! features stories from a fantastic group of authors whose stories are separated into three groups: Oddities, Curiosities, and Undefinable Wonders. The stories themselves offer a wide range of adventures, some tugging at the heart strings, others creating a perfect sense of dread, and others still making you laugh out loud. Overall, the antholoy was a fun romp through words, each story like a new flavor of candy, ever so sweet and delicious. Favorites of mine were Lisa Morton's "LaRue's Dime Museum," Stephanie Wytovich's poem "An Exhibition of Mother and Monster," John Langan's "Madame Paint: For Sale," Neil Gaiman's "Chivalry," and John F.D. Taff's "A Ware That Will Not Keep."" --Kenneth W. Cain, author of Embers

Edition details

• Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1640074732
• ISBN 13: 9781640074736
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404