That Which Grows Wild - Guignard, Eric J.

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Résumé :
That Which Grows Wild collects sixteen dark and masterful short fiction stories by award-winning author Eric J. Guignard. Equal parts of whimsy and weird, horror and heartbreak, this debut collection traverses the darker side of the fantastic through vibrant and harrowing tales that encounter monsters and regrets, hope and atonement, and the oddly changing reflection that turns back at you in the mirror. Discover why, after only several years, Eric J. Guignard has developed an ardent following and earned praise by masters of the craft such as Ramsey Campbell (Guignard gives voice to paranoid vision that&rsquo...

Biographie:
ERIC J. GUIGNARD is a writer, editor, and anthologist of dark and speculative fiction, operating from the shadowy outskirts of Los Angeles, where he also runs the small press, Dark Moon Books. He's twice won the Bram Stoker Award, won the Shirley Jackson Award, and been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and International Thriller Writers Award. He has over 150 stories appearing in publications around the world. As editor, Eric's published multiple fiction anthologies, including PROFESSOR CHARLATAN BARDOT'S TRAVEL ANTHOLOGY TO THE MOST (FICTIONAL) HAUNTED BUILDINGS IN THE WEIRD, WILD WORLD and A WORLD OF HORROR, each a showcase of international horror short fiction. His latest books are LAST CASE AT A BAGGAGE AUCTION...

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s all too believable.) and Rick Hautala (No other young horror author is better, I think, than Eric J. Guignard.) by stories such as these: In A Case Study in Natural Selection and How It Applies to Love, a teen learns about himself while contemplating the theory of Natural Selection as the world around slowly dies from rising temperature and increasing cases of spontaneous combustion. In Dreams of a Little Suicide, a down-on-his-luck dwarven man unexpectedly finds his dreams and love in Hollywood as a munchkin for filming of The Wizard of Oz, but soon those dreams begin to darken. In The Inveterate Establishment of Daddano & Co., an aged undertaker tells the true story behind Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, and of the grime that accumulates beneath our floors. In A Journey of Great Waves, a Japanese girl encounters, years later, the ocean-borne debris of her tsunami-ravaged homeland, and the ghosts that come with it. In The House of the Rising Sun, Forever, a tragic voice gives dire warning against the cycle of opium addiction from which, even after death, there is no escape. In Last Days of the Gunslinger, John Amos, a gunfighter keeps a decimated town&rsquo...