Two New Titles Announced From Dark Regions Press
Larry Roberts | Aug 24, 2009 | Comments 0
UNDERTOW AND OTHER LAMENTS by Michael Kelly (Limited Edition Hardcover)
New short story collection by Michael Kelly!
“Michael Kelly’s characters are the lost, the misbegotten, the lonely and the damaged; and all are searching for a moment of redemption. Whether he intended it or not, the stories in this collection have been arranged not unlike the various movements in a symphony. While he references Vivaldi here, the symphony you’re about to “hear” has more in common with Gustav Mahler, as far as I’m concerned. Undertow and Other Laments left me feeling the same way I felt after first hearing Mahler’s overpowering 1st Symphony; it begins quietly, broodingly, with funereal sorrow, and continues through movements of anger, or triumph, of horror, of sadness, and, in the end, with the glorious title novella, combines all of its themes to produce a heartbreaking summation in the final passages, wherein final redemption may not have been achieved, but its presence is still nearby, somewhere, in the shadows of the human psyche and the undiscovered corners of the spirit.”
–Gary Braunbeck, from his introduction “Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats”
If you are interested in the Deluxe edition of this title click here: UNDERTOW AND OTHER LAMENTS by Michael Kelly (Deluxe Edition Hardcover)
THOUGHT FORMS follows the alternating stories of two cousins stalked by mysterious enemies bent on their destruction…
Ray is a lonely young worker in a leather goods factory, whose parents were murdered by unknown assailants when he was just a child. Now, years later, having moved into the same remote house in which the murders occurred, Ray becomes increasingly harassed by enigmatic robed figures who may be connected to that long ago night of carnage.
Meanwhile, Ray’s cousin Paul goes to his job in the plastics company where he works nights, unaware that soon he and a small crew of coworkers will become trapped inside and hunted by an inhuman entity against which they must desperately battle if they hope to survive until morning.
Building tension with the deliberate stealth of a big cat, by the time its bloody climax approaches THOUGHT FORMS will have gripped the reader’s throat in crushing jaws. Once again we’re reminded why F. Paul Wilson says, “Jeffrey Thomas’ imagination is as twisted as it is relentless.”
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