Voice of the Stranger

Eric Schaller

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Fourteen unsettling and eerie speculative shorts that draw on the richness of folk and fairy tales. Genies, one-eyed sheep, and automatons, among other oddities, populate these pages and so populate the reader's imagination. Weird fiction author Schaller includes a section of story notes that reveals his inspiration for each tale.

Book Details

Publisher: Lethe Press
Publish Date: Apr 3rd, 2023
Pages: 210
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.48in - 0.69lb
EAN: 9781590217443
Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• Fantasy - Dark Fantasy• Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

About the Author

Schaller, Eric: - Eric Schaller's fiction has appeared in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Fantasy: Best of the Year, The Time Traveler's Almanac, SciFiction, Postscripts, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Polyphony, New Genre, Shadows & Tall Trees, and others. Schaller's stories are influenced in part by his studies in the biological sciences, their inspiration, and the unease that originates in a world populated by many organisms-including humans-dependent on but also working at cross-purposes with each other.

Praise for this book

"Eric Schaller's new story collection, Voice of a Stranger, is a wondrous curio cabinet of tales. His work as an author, illustrator of weird stories, and scientist draws a myriad of influences together and blends all the speculative genres with a smooth, descriptive style. The pacing is perfect from story to story, as the strange creeps, filters, leaps into these 14 fabulist fictions." - Jeffrey Ford, author of Big Dark Hole

"Be careful: reading Eric Schaller's collection opens a door to the fairy tale realm of the mythically eerie and meaningful...one that you may not find as easy to close." - Will Ludwigsen, author of Acres of Perhaps

"These unsettling fairy tales will linger in readers' minds." - Publishers Weekly

"This gruesome collection of short stories explores the perils and pleasures of encounters with the unknown." - Kirkus Reviews