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An elderly junk dealer finds redemption in a defunct burlesque theater. A middle-aged Jewish man discovers the aphrodisiacal powers of a Ku Klux Klan uniform. An annual street carnival provides the venue for legalized murder. A hopeless young factory worker uses her savings to pay for a fantasy tryst with her idol, a dead rock star, and is shattered by the experience. Welcome to the world of Christopher Fahy, a world of fantastical transformation, where the ordinary takes bizarre and macabre twists. These are among the twenty-two stories (which includes one extra story in this hard cover version) fantasy stories in the latest Overlook Connection Press release, Christopher Fahy's Matinee at the Flame.
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An elderly junk dealer finds redemption in a defunct burlesque theater. A middle-aged Jewish man discovers the aphrodisiacal powers of a Ku Klux Klan uniform. An annual street carnival provides the venue for legalized murder. Welcome to the world of Christopher Fahy, a world of fantastical transformation, where the ordinary takes bizarre and macabre twists: · A druggie wandering in Europe touches a medieval painting and is shockingly changed forever. · A middle aged bachelor loser becomes a slave to his TV set, which has him carry out its evil plans. · New dental work turns a cuckold into a vengeful killer. · A mild-mannered octogenarian comes back from the dead to right the wrongs of his familiar world. · A greedy businessman is trapped in a life-or-death game played with 1952 baseball cards. · Frankenstein's monster visits his creator, Mary Shelley, in the dark of a sleepless night with love on his mind. · A hopeless young factory worker uses her savings to pay for a fantasy tryst with her idol, a dead rock star, and is shattered by the experience.
About the Author
Fahy's stories have appeared in The Twilight Zone Magazine, Gallery, and many anthologies, including Night Screams; Predators; Cat Crimes I and II; Frankenstein: The Monster Wakes; Isaac Asimov????s Magical Worlds of Fantasy; Santa Clues; and The King is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem. He has published four dark fantasy novels: Nightflyer; Dream House; Eternal Bliss; and The Lyssa Syndrome. This is his first collection of fantasy stories. Fahy is also the author of the mainstream story collection Limerock: Maine Stories, and several mainstream novels, one of which, Fever 42, was called "wildly funny and surprisingly sad" by Stephen King, and "one of those rare books that restores our faith in the mainstream novel," by John Grant. Fever 42 was also published by Overlook Connection Press
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- PublisherOverlook Connection Pr
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1892950774
- ISBN 13 9781892950772
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages274
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