The Man on the Ceiling

Tem, Steve Rasnic & Melanie

ISBN 10: 0786948582 / ISBN 13: 9780786948581

Published by Wizards of the Coast, Renton, 2008

About this Item

Renton: Wizards of the Coast:, 2008. Trade paperback, ARC (Advance Reading Copy, proof), Fine, 366 pp. Cover artwork by: Christopher Gibbs Trade paperback, ARC (Advance Reading Copy, proof), Fine,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Man on the Ceiling
• Publisher: Wizards of the Coast, Renton
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786948582
• ISBN 13: 9780786948581
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Christopher Gibbs
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fantasy

About this title

Synopsis

Two interwoven memoirs of love, loss, and family with a haunted, frightening edge.

In 2000, American Fantasy Press published an unassuming chapbook titled The Man on the Ceiling. Inside was a dark, surreal, discomfiting story of the horrors that can befall a family. It was so powerful that it won the Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award, and World Fantasy Award--the only work ever to win all three. Now, Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem have re-imagined the story, expanding on the ideas to create a compelling work that examines how people find a family, how they hold a family together despite incomprehensible tragedy, and how, in the end, they find love.

Loosely autobiographical, The Man on the Ceiling has the feel of a family portrait painted by Salvador Dali, where story and reality blend to find the one thing that neither can offer alone: truth.

About the Author

Award-winning author, poet, and playwright Melanie Tem is the author of fourteen published novels. Her works have won, among many accolades, the Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award. Dan Simmons called her "the literary successor to Shirley Jackson," and readers and reviewers consistently rave about her deeply involved stories of the terrors that haunt families.

Steve Rasnic Tem has been called "a school of writing unto himself" (Joe R. Lansdale). His surreal stories have earned him comparisons to Franz Kafka, Dino Buzzati, Ray Bradbury, and Raymond Carver. He has also won the Bram Stoker award and been nominated for British Fantasy and World Fantasy awards for his short stories, novels, and collections.

Together, Melanie and Steve won the Bram Stoker award for their multi-media collection Imagination Box, and won a Stoker, International Horror Guild, and World Fantasy award for their novella The Man on the Ceiling (the only work ever to win all three). They live in Denver, Colorado with the family they have made for themselves.