Figures Unseen: Selected Stories

Synopsis

In The Worlds Of Steve Rasnic Tem A Father Takes His Son Fishing In The Deepest Part Of Downtown, Flayed Rabbits Visit A Suburban Back Yard, A Man Is Haunted By A Surrealistic Nightmare Of Crutches, A Father Is Unable To Rescue His Son From A Nightmare Of Trees, A Bereaved Man Transforms Memories Of His Wife Into Performance Art, Great Moving Cliffs Of Detritus Randomly Prowl The World, A Seemingly Pointless Life Finds Final Expression In Bits Of Folded Paper, A Nuclear Holocaust Brings About A New Mythology, An Isolated Man Discovers He's Part Of A Terrifying Community, A Photographer Discovers The Unexpected In The Faces Of Dead Children, And A Couple's Aging Dismantles Reality. Winner Of The World Fantasy, British Fantasy And Bram Stoker Awards, Tem Has Earned A Reputation As One Of The Finest And Most Original Short Fiction Writers Of Our Time, Blending Elements Of Horror, Dark Fantasy, Science Fiction And Surreal Nightmare Into A Genre Uniquely His Own. This New Volume Collects For The First Time Thirty-five Of Tem's Best Tales, Selected By The Author, And Includes An Introduction By Simon Strantzas. One Of The Finest And Most Productive Writers Of Imaginative Literature In North America. - Dan Simmons Steve Rasnic Tem Is A School Of Writing Unto Himself. - Joe R. Lansdale He's One Of The True Masters. - Ed Gorman