Lesser Demons

Partridge, Norman

ISBN 10: 1596062940 / ISBN 13: 9781596062948

Published by Subterranean Press, 2010

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.4. Seller Inventory # G1596062940I2N00

Synopsis:

A collection of cross-genre horror stories includes a new novella with story notes.

From the Inside Flap: While the sun blisters a dying world, a mutant spider battles a squad of toy soldiers and a plastic cowboy on his last ride A gangster, a sheriff, and a mysterious traveler face an army of mechanical vampires burrowing up from hell itself during a wild Montana storm In a desert poisoned by atomic radiation, an abused boy stands between a rampaging giant and the hunter who would make him a grisly trophy Beneath a full Arizona moon, a drifter faces a pack of merciless human animals and the werewolf who butchered his sister In the American West, a legendary gunslinger delivers a cursed bounty to the one-horse town where his partner's ghost awaits.Tales of hardboiled horror and Twilight Zone noir. Cross-genre blowtorches with bad guys and worse guys. Love stories both dark and bittersweet. A brand new novella and extensive story notes. You'll find this and more in the fifth collection from three-time Bram Stoker award-winner Norman Partridge, an author Locus calls one of the most dependable, exciting, and entertaining practitioners of dark suspense and dark fantasy... emphasis on the dark. In Lesser Demons, Partridge explores the kind of fiction that made him both a horror fan and a writer. Using the shotgun prose of a crime novel, the title story draws a deadly bead on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The Iron Dead introduces Chaney, a monster-hunting pulp hero with a mechanical hand built in hell. Carrion cuts a mean swath through Robert E. Howard territory, while The Big Man explores dark shadows of American life never imagined in the atom-age horror movies of the fifties.Part celebration, part reinvention, Lesser Demons only serves to underscore RevolutionSF's verdict: Norman Partridge is the finest writer of short horror fiction going.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Lesser Demons
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket