Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is...
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From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is initiated into a family story of monstrous deeds. A student learns frightening lessons in a surreal tutoring center. A young couple struggles to make their stand against a group of inhuman pursuers in a ravaged landscape. And, in a new story, an artist discovers a mysterious statue whose completion becomes his obsession.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780809572496 (0809572494)
Publish date: December 29th 2008
Publisher: Prime Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Not a bad collection of short stories a little creepy but not scary. I can say I did enjoy reading this horror collection better then Stephen King's [b:Full Dark, No Stars|10639261|Full Dark, No Stars|Stephen King|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1347374104s/10639261.jpg|11067830].
I loved the general ambition of this thing: the author asks, "What monsters don't people write about any more, or what fears seem so dated as to be unusable? And how might I then use them, effectively?:So we have a mummy, a skeleton, etc. (And in addition to fetishizing cool old monsters, the aut...
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