The Secret Geography of Nightmare, by L. H. Maynard & M.P.N. Sims
Brand : Wildside Press
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- 1587154188
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- 1587154188
This 100,000-word collection of storiesùsupernatural and crimeùessays andinterviews brings together work from the two out of print hardback collections,Shadows at Midnight and Echoes of Darkness, as well as other stories published,and unpublished, over recent years. With the companion volume Selling DarkMiracles, this is the complete Maynard-Sims story to 2000. Together they featurework never before published in USA. This is Bram Stoker Award nominated workfrom two first class writers of style and quality.
ôFor twenty-five years, Maynard & Sims have been visiting shadows. To the delight and appreciationof readers, they bring back souvenirs. Like gentleman peddlers selling dark miracles, thislong-time duet crafts fiction that reads like the secret geography of nightmare. With the subtle,undeniable persuasiveness of cold air slipping beneath the door, their supernatural stories displaya subversive ability to stealthily chip away at those flimsy walls of logic and rationalization that thehuman animal uses to form illusions of control and safety; barriers that Maynard & Sims delightin crossing.ö
ùWilliam P Simmons
ôMaynard & Sims have mastered not only the traditional ghost story, but have grown into accomplishedauthors of the modern horror story. The release of two massive collections of their work issurely a cause for celebration among all aficionados of tales of terror.ö
ùJohn Pelan, editor of Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium
ôMaynard & Sims know the devil is in the details. They plant their devils cunningly, in carefullydrawn characters and moody settings, and they know just when to let the devil out to satisfy areader with a good dose of fright, or mystery, or disquiet, or all of that and more.ö
ùGerard Houarner, Fiction Editor, Space and Time Magazine and Going Postal
ôMaynard & Sims are that rare and wonderful hybrid that sings to the darkest corners of the soulwith their sweet voice whilst leading you like an innocent into the wilderness ready to hand youover to the Big Bad Wolf. Their stories never fail to deliver. They ask questions others are afraidto ask. They explore territory others are afraid to venture into. In many ways Maynard & Sims arereminiscent of the late greats of our genreùAickman, Bloch, Leiber, Machen and even Poe, allspliced liberally with that unique dash of M&S spice . . . ö
ùSteve Savile, author of Secret Life of Colors and Similar Monsters