by John Everson
First published 2015
Martin Mundt serves as Dream Master in this collection of 27 tales that blur the line between sleep and waking terror. A couple obsesses over fireworks while their relationship burns. A tower built from words stretches beyond the sky's limits. A dominatrix trains her perverted parrot in new tricks. Three connected stories follow El Pollo's bloody revenge against those who wronged him. An ex-girlfriend makes the villain from Misery look gentle by comparison. Each story pulls readers deeper into territories where dreams kidnap imagination and transport minds to forbidden places. The tales range from absurd comedy to devastating emotion, from supernatural revenge to Lovecraftian magic that consumes everything it touches. Mundt's dream world operates by its own twisted logic, where astronauts fall like rain and cameras develop an appetite for human subjects.
Genres: short-stories, fantasy, horror, supernatural
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: supernatural, unreliable-narrator
296 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: gore, violence