Echoes of a Natural World: Tales of the Strange & Estranged - Softcover

Michael P. Daley; Jean Lorrain; Joris-Karl Huysmans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1734906006 ISBN 13: 9781734906004

Publisher: First To Knock, 2020

Synopsis

Through eleven weird tales, this collection raises questions about Nature’s influence on the mind and the mind’s unnatural influence on Nature. Compiling mindbenders from 19th century French Decadent legends, a once lost occult story from the early 20th century, and debut works from emerging American authors, 'Echoes of a Natural World' represents a strange literary tradition spanning 150 years. The result is, in turns, psychedelic, horrifying, and darkly hilarious. Behold accounts of amphibian horrors; whispering mold and Midwestern strip-mall desolation; occult hypnosis and regenerated limbs; void-bound train rides with a hallucinatory hustler king; ghost boars in German battlefields; spiraling anxiety that only peach trees and country cottages could produce. This kaleidoscopic collection wades in those nebulous waters where the inner world and outer landscape mesh. For as we barrel into a reality where technology has seemingly penetrated even the most remote corners of the earth, one must ask: Is it even possible to have a genuine interaction with Nature anymore? Has it ever been? Or have these longings always been the romantic delusions of a species obsessed with itself? 'Echoes of a Natural World' defies easy categorization and easy answers.

Edition details

• Publisher: First To Knock
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1734906006
• ISBN 13: 9781734906004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Michael P. Daley