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[John Claude Smith] Â Autumn in the Abyss Ç Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Autumn in the Abyss An intertwined menagerie of human depravity from a Lovecraftian POV Brian Fatah Steele (from Advanced Reader Copy)It’s rare that you can finish a book and find that it has left you altered on multiple levels. Beyond just themes and concepts presented, it’s how the book makes you feel. Smith does this with Autumn in the Abyss, and the results are brilliant.A short collection of only five tales, no more are really needed for what Smith is trying to say. They are a loosely intertwined m
| Title | : | Autumn in the Abyss |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.65 (598 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 061597273X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 130 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-18 |
| Language | : | English |
Reality is the strangest mirror "The stories in John Claude Smith's new collection take their characters to the limits of human experience, the places where our bodies come asunder in the face of the abyss. It's a tough act to follow, and yet the next four tales not only hold their own, but occasionally even up the ante. Fifty years later, an ill man's research into Coronado's work and life reveals that poetry can indeed change the world, or leave it in ruins. The title novelette is a breathtaking exercise in dark fantasy a surreal, unabashedly literary, horrific mystery with a surprising, heartrending truth at its end. Positioning his stories in the seams of our cultural history, Smith chronicles the efforts of artists of all
He has written fiction, poetry and bad lyrics for as long as he can remember. Finally back on the fiction path, he s had over 60 short stories and 15 poems published, as well as a debut collection of not your average horror, The Dark Is Light Enough For Me. . He is presently writing his third novel, while shopping around the other two. At a point when
Autumn in the Abyss is another dark and captivating collection from a writer who isn't afraid to plumb the depths of our greatest and most dangerous desires. Whether with pen or carving knife, Smith's characters will not stop until they have gone too far, into a space where revelation and terror are part of the same, vast thing. --Joe Mynhardt, Crystal Lake PublishingThe stories in John Claude Smith's new collection take their characters to the limits of human experience, the places where our bodies come asunder in the face of the abyss. Whether with pen or carving knife, Smith's characters will not stop until they have gone too far, into a space where revelation and terror are part of the same, vast thing. --Joe Mynhardt, Crystal Lake Publishing . --John Langan, author of The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous GeographiesThe Rhythmic flow of John'
An intertwined menagerie of human depravity from a Lovecraftian POV Brian Fatah Steele (from Advanced Reader Copy)It’s rare that you can finish a book and find that it has left you altered on multiple levels. Beyond just themes and concepts presented, it’s how the book makes you feel. Smith does this with Autumn in the Abyss, and the results are brilliant.A short collection of only five tales, no more are really needed for what Smith is trying to say. They are a loosely intertwined menagerie of human depravity as examined from a Lovecraftian point-of-view. All manner of unspeakable atrocities are spoken of and acted out, but never in a “gore porn&. Christine said Got the goods!. John Claude Smith has got the goods. Raw talent, polished skill, and an artistic flair that makes his way with words a real pleasure to read. In Autumn in the Abyss, he demonstrates it with five connected tales that are beautifully-written, thought-provoking, and chillingly creepy.The titular novella is a fascinating, twisted, convoluted journey into madness and poetry, as an agoraphobic shut-in tries to unravel a mystery going back to the heyday of the Beat Poets … and the ever-weirder conspiracy seeking to dissuade him from finding the truth.In “Broken Teacup,&rdqu. You'll be checking over your shoulder as you read From the William Burroughs epigraph to the closing story that'll make you rethink confronting the person knocking the back of your seat in a cinema, this is a collection of distinction, told in a rich, bold style with unifying themes, images and characters. It would be worth the price of admission for the title story alone, about the disappearance of poet Henry Coronado after a public reading turns into an invocation, of evil. The narrator, researching the poet's life for a possible biography, becomes drawn into the literary mystery. Like him, you'll be checking over your shoulde
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