William Browning Spencer Knihy

Rock yawned. "Gotta get moving," Rock said. A couple of hundred million years went by. A rock is always slow to take action. A rock watches an oak grow from a sapling to a towering tree, and it's a flash and a dazzle in the mind of a rock. What was that? Rock thinks. Or maybe, Huh?That's how Zod Wallop starts. Harry Gainesborough wrote and drew the story three years ago, before his daughter drowned. Now he writes nothing. Raymond Story read Zod Wallop while he was a patient at Harwood Psychiatric. Now the book means everything to him - so much so that he'd like to meet its author and live out its events. In fact, Zod Wallop means so much to Raymond that he has taken great pains to escape the institution and is now journeying to Harry Gainesborough's house with his young wife, Emily, in tow.These odd doings alone would be enough to unsettle Harry, but they're compounded by other coincidences. Bizarre coincidences. Occurrences that lead Harry to believe that Zod Wallop is actually happening.

Philip Kenan is battling a series of bad jobs -and the monsters from H.P. Lovecraft's fiction go with him. Philip's first confrontation with the monsters set in motion a bizarre chain of events that finally sent his girlfriend Amelia packing. Now the battle rages from the dank, cramped sweatshop of Philip's former place of employment, Ralph's One Day Résumés, to the gleaming, deadly corridors of corporate giant Pelidyne. Can he save Amelia this time, or will the monsters triumph and consign all humanity to an existence of grim servitude?

Another decade has passed, and William Browning Spencer presents a remarkable collection of short stories that blend horror and humor. Several tales serve as cautionary narratives. After reading “The Tenth Muse,” you may hesitate to interview a reclusive writer known for one hit novel, even if your father was his closest friend. You might even reconsider your desire to become a writer. “The Indelible Dark” depicts a character lost in a dystopian novel, gradually realizing he carries his own darkness into reality. These monsters are not mere metaphors; in “Penguins of the Apocalypse,” alcoholism manifests as a folkloric creature, much darker than any comforting figure. And it threatens your son. “Stone and the Librarian” tells of a discontented young man seeking his place in a world of swords and sorcery, yet continually pulled back to the mundane lives of his classmates. His book report opens with a violent declaration against Holden Caulfield from *The Catcher in the Rye*. In “The Unorthodox Dr. Draper,” a psychologist embraces improvisation with a client who feels hunted, likening herself to a mouse aware of the owl's shadow. This collection serves as an excellent introduction for newcomers and is essential for those familiar with Spencer's work.

The stories we tell are not limited to monsters and harsh otherworlds. Yet the fiction books in the Borealis imprint certainly belong to a world other than our own. This line encompasses our science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and anthologies.

Newburg, North Carolina, 1966. Der junge Künstler David jobbt als Sanitäter in der Notaufnahme. Dort trifft er Anna zum ersten Mal, als sie wegen einer Überdosis irgendwelcher Drogen behandelt wird. Ihre ungewöhnliche Schönheit, ihre Ausstrahlung werfen ihn um; für ihn ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Süchtig nach ihr, zieht er in die WG, in der Anna lebt. Aber Anna hat einen Freund, den Drogendealer Larry. Eines Nachts wird Larry tot aufgefunden. Ein Roman voller Spannung und Besessenheit; eine mitreißende Geschichte von grenzenloser Liebe und bitterer Rache.