![]() ![]() ![]() Wherever Evenson takes you in his minimalist horror, he “doesn’t shy away from blood, murder, apparitions, surrealism, dreams, torture, and weirdness, but he also refrains from letting those elements take over” ( Electric Lit). Whether it’s a stuffed bear’s heart that beats with the rhythm of a dead baby, or the city of Reno that keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive, or a mine on another planet where the dust won’t stop seeping in, the astonishing stories in A Collapse of Horses range from horror to science fiction to noir and all the weird, edgy places in between. Stephen King” ( The New York Times Sunday Book Review). Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. “Preoccupied with the uncanny, the unsettling, and the unknowable” ( The Los Angeles Review), Evenson’s seventeen stories in this collection “evoke Kafka, some Poe, some Beckett, some Roald Dahl, and . . . A Collapse of Horses: A Collection of Stories is written by Brian Evenson and published by Coffee House Press. A provocative collection of literary horror stories by one of America’s most acclaimed and inventive writers whose unique prose “can be soul-shaking” ( New Yorker). ![]()
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