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Cormac McCarthy meets The Twilight Zone. A modern-day Hawthorne, Evenson is a writer people will claim they discovered early.
A woman falling out of sync with the world, a king’s servant hypnotized by his murderous horse, a transplanted ear with a mind of its own—the characters in these stories live as interlopers in a world shaped by mysterious disappearances and unfathomable discrepancies between the real and imagined. Evenson, master of literary horror, presents his most far-ranging collection to date, exploring how humans struggle to persist in an increasingly unreal world. Haunting, gripping, and psychologically fierce, these tales illuminate a dark and unsettling side of humanity.
A woman falling out of sync with the world, a king’s servant hypnotized by his murderous horse, a transplanted ear with a mind of its own—the characters in these stories live as interlopers in a world shaped by mysterious disappearances and unfathomable discrepancies between the real and imagined. Evenson, master of literary horror, presents his most far-ranging collection to date, exploring how humans struggle to persist in an increasingly unreal world. Haunting, gripping, and psychologically fierce, these tales illuminate a dark and unsettling side of humanity.
Price: $18.00
Pages: 176
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Publication Date:
30 April 2012
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781566892988
Format: Paperback
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Praise for Windeye
A Time Out New York Best Book of 2012
“Evenson’s thrillingly unnerving books have won awards for mystery, horror, and literary fiction; this is work that’s scary on a deep level.” —Reader’s Digest
“The fact that Evenson can move from parody to paranoia and humor to horror in the span of three paragraphs is a testament to his ability as a storyteller.” —The Brooklyn Rail
“Ranging from feudal to post-apocalyptic, [Windeye] contains some of the best uncanny and horror writing to come out of New England since Stephen King published The Stand in 1978.” —ForeWord
“Imagine Beckett’s Murphy or Molloy lost, walking around in a Poe tale, then read these stories to find out why Jonathan Lethem calls Evenson ‘one of the treasures of American story writing.’” —Shelf Awareness
“Characterized by building suspense and dread, these tales often have a folkloric feel far removed from the commonplace.” —Booklist
“[Windeye is] fiction that, for all its seeming insubstantiality, is weighty, solid, and provocative.” —Locus Magazine
“Laughter can be an effective tool of the horror writer, and Evenson is its finest practitioner.” —Time Out Chicago
“Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe.” —Jonathan Lethem
“No one—and I mean no one—is better at excavating the strangeness of our everyday lives.” —Andrew Ervin
A Time Out New York Best Book of 2012
“Evenson’s thrillingly unnerving books have won awards for mystery, horror, and literary fiction; this is work that’s scary on a deep level.” —Reader’s Digest
“The fact that Evenson can move from parody to paranoia and humor to horror in the span of three paragraphs is a testament to his ability as a storyteller.” —The Brooklyn Rail
“Ranging from feudal to post-apocalyptic, [Windeye] contains some of the best uncanny and horror writing to come out of New England since Stephen King published The Stand in 1978.” —ForeWord
“Imagine Beckett’s Murphy or Molloy lost, walking around in a Poe tale, then read these stories to find out why Jonathan Lethem calls Evenson ‘one of the treasures of American story writing.’” —Shelf Awareness
“Characterized by building suspense and dread, these tales often have a folkloric feel far removed from the commonplace.” —Booklist
“[Windeye is] fiction that, for all its seeming insubstantiality, is weighty, solid, and provocative.” —Locus Magazine
“Laughter can be an effective tool of the horror writer, and Evenson is its finest practitioner.” —Time Out Chicago
“Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe.” —Jonathan Lethem
“No one—and I mean no one—is better at excavating the strangeness of our everyday lives.” —Andrew Ervin
Praised by Peter Straub for going “furthest out on the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice,” Brian Evenson is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes and has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He is also the winner of the International Horror Guild Award and the American Library Association’s award for Best Horror Novel, and his work has been named in Time Out New York’s top books.