A Long December

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A Long December

In 1996, Richard Chizmarâ€™s debut short story collection, Midnight Promises, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Publishers Weekly called it â€œa sterling collectionâ€ while singling out â€œThe Silence of Sorrowâ€ as â€œan understated masterpiece.â€

Two years later, Subterranean Press published a mini-collection from Chizmar entitled Monsters and Other Stories. In his introduction, acclaimed genre critic Edward Bryant said, â€œWhen all is said and done, this book should leave you in utter silence, giving you time and opportunity to contemplate what you just read. Tough storytelling from a tough writer; but a writer who is not calloused. Chizmar possesses a finely honed gift of empathy. With utter grace and loving kindness heâ€™ll put you right inside the life (and soul) of the monster.â€

Now, nearly two decades later, Chizmar assembles thirty-five stories, including a previously-unpublished novella, and presents us with A Long December. This massive new collection features more than 150,000 words of Chizmarâ€™s very best short fiction and includes 8,000 words of autobiographical Story Notes.

Eerie, suspenseful, poignant, the stories in A Long December range from horror to suspense, crime to dark fantasy, mainstream to mystery.

As New York Times bestselling author Scott Smith (A Simple Plan, The Ruins) notes: â€œItâ€™s an idyllic little world Richard Chizmar has created. Boys fish in the shallows of a winding creek. A father tosses a baseball with his young son in the fading light of a summer day. Thereâ€™s the smell of fresh-cut grass. And then, wellâ€¦just beneath the surface? There are those missing pets whose collars turn up in a shoebox. Or the disturbing photos the dead can leave behind. Or the terrible thing you might find yourself doing when a long lost brother suddenly returns, demanding money. Chizmar does a tremendous job of peeling back his worldâ€™s shiny layers, revealing the rot that lies underneath. His stories feel like so many teeth: short and sharp and ready to draw blood.â€

Country	USA
Author	Richard Chizmar
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781596067943
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Subterranean Press
Manufacturer	Subterranean Press
NumberOfPages	530
PublicationDate	2016-10-31
Publisher	Subterranean Press
ReleaseDate	2016-10-31
Studio	Subterranean Press

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