The glassy, burning floor of hell : stories / Brian Evenson.
"'Here is how monstrous humans are.' A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men-of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans. In this new short story collection, Brian Evenson envisions a chilling future beyond the Anthropocene that forces excruciating decisions about survival and self-sacrifice in the face of toxic air and a natural world torn between revenge and regeneration. Combining psychological and ecological horror, each tale thrums with Evenson's award-winning literary craftsmanship, dark humor, and thrilling suspense"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781566896115
- ISBN: 1566896118
- Physical Description: 240 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2021.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Leg -- In Dreams -- Myling Kommer -- Come Up -- Palisade -- Curator -- To Breathe the Air -- The Barrow-Men -- The Shimmering Wall -- Grauer in the Snow -- Justle -- The Devil's Hand -- Nameless Citizen -- The Coldness of His Eye -- Daylight Come -- Elo Havel -- His Haunting -- Haver -- The Extrication -- A Bad Patch -- Hospice -- The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell. |
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Subject: | Short stories, American. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Short stories. |
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Brian Evenson is the author of over a dozen works of fiction. He has received three O. Henry Prizes for his fiction. His most recent book, Song for the Unraveling of the World, won a World Fantasy Award and a Shirley Jackson Award and was a finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction and the Balcones Fiction Prize. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts.