Thanatrauma: Stories
Steve Rasnic Tem
Book Description
“All my life I’ve dreamed of the dead.”
Thanatrauma: the dread of it erodes you, the shadows waiting at the end, the impending conclusion, the troubling dream from which you will not wake.
These 21 stories – four published here for the first time – explore some of our fundamental fears: death, loss, grief, and aging. In “Reflections in Black,” a man takes a phantasmagoric Halloween journey in search of a former love. In “The Parts Man,” a man enters a desperate contract with a sinister entity in a long, vintage automobile. The darkly beautiful “The Dead Outside My Door” is a haunting post-apocalyptic tale unlike any you’ve ever read. Other offerings include “Whatever You Want,” in which a Christmas wish has terrible consequences; “Torn,” a bizarre vision of a highly personalized hell; and “The Way Station,” a tribute to the legendary Stefan Grabinski. Also featured is a special bonus, “August Freeze,” from the lost, undistributed Winter 1985 issue of Weird Tales.
Steve Rasnic Tem has won the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards and has established himself as one of today’s finest writers of horror and weird fiction. In this new collection, by turns chilling and thought-provoking, Tem is at his very best.
The hardcover edition is limited to 300 copies signed by the author. The hardcover edition will be Smyth-sewn, printed on acid-free heavyweight paper, bound in foil-stamped black cloth, with a ribbon bookmark and dust jacket.
Steve Rasnic Tem
Book Description
“All my life I’ve dreamed of the dead.”
Thanatrauma: the dread of it erodes you, the shadows waiting at the end, the impending conclusion, the troubling dream from which you will not wake.
These 21 stories – four published here for the first time – explore some of our fundamental fears: death, loss, grief, and aging. In “Reflections in Black,” a man takes a phantasmagoric Halloween journey in search of a former love. In “The Parts Man,” a man enters a desperate contract with a sinister entity in a long, vintage automobile. The darkly beautiful “The Dead Outside My Door” is a haunting post-apocalyptic tale unlike any you’ve ever read. Other offerings include “Whatever You Want,” in which a Christmas wish has terrible consequences; “Torn,” a bizarre vision of a highly personalized hell; and “The Way Station,” a tribute to the legendary Stefan Grabinski. Also featured is a special bonus, “August Freeze,” from the lost, undistributed Winter 1985 issue of Weird Tales.
Steve Rasnic Tem has won the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards and has established himself as one of today’s finest writers of horror and weird fiction. In this new collection, by turns chilling and thought-provoking, Tem is at his very best.
The hardcover edition is limited to 300 copies signed by the author. The hardcover edition will be Smyth-sewn, printed on acid-free heavyweight paper, bound in foil-stamped black cloth, with a ribbon bookmark and dust jacket.
Limited Edition Hardcover:
Limited to 300 numbered copies signed by the author
Smyth-sewn, cloth bound book with dust jacket
Acid-free paper, black endsheets, ribbon bookmark, foil stamped spine
Limited Edition Hardcover list price $40, preorder price $30
Limited to 300 numbered copies signed by the author
Smyth-sewn, cloth bound book with dust jacket
Acid-free paper, black endsheets, ribbon bookmark, foil stamped spine
Limited Edition Hardcover list price $40, preorder price $30
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Author biography:
Steve Rasnic Tem has published over 430 short stories, seven novels, and ten collections during a career spanning forty years. He is a past recipient of the World Fantasy Award and the British Fantasy Award, and his 2014 novel Blood Kin won the Bram Stoker Award. His latest novel, Ubo (Solaris, 2017), is a dark science fiction tale about violence and its origins, featuring such historical viewpoint characters as Jack the Ripper, Stalin, and Heinrich Himmler. Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing, written with his late wife Melanie, also appeared from Apex Books in 2017.
Steve Rasnic Tem has published over 430 short stories, seven novels, and ten collections during a career spanning forty years. He is a past recipient of the World Fantasy Award and the British Fantasy Award, and his 2014 novel Blood Kin won the Bram Stoker Award. His latest novel, Ubo (Solaris, 2017), is a dark science fiction tale about violence and its origins, featuring such historical viewpoint characters as Jack the Ripper, Stalin, and Heinrich Himmler. Yours to Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing, written with his late wife Melanie, also appeared from Apex Books in 2017.