Behold the Void

Behold the Void

<div><div><b>"...think vintage King at his best." -- <i>Rue Morgue Magazine</i></b><br /><br />"Fracassi...builds his horrific tales slowly and carefully...his powers of description are formidable; and he's especially skillful at creating, and sustaining, suspense." - <b><i>The New York Times</i></b> <br /><br />"...recalls the work of writers such as McCammon, King, and Bradbury." - <b><i>LOCUS Magazine </i></b></div><br /><div>"Philip Fracassi is the next big horror writer to blow your mind." - <i><b>Lit Reactor</b></i><br /><br /><b>Introduction by Laird Barron</b><br /><br />BEHOLD THE VOID is nine stories of terror that huddle in the dark space between cosmic horror and the modern weird, between old-school hard-edged horror of the 1980's and the stylistic prose of today's literary giants.<br /><br />Revenge takes a monstrous form when a scorned lover acquires bizarre, telekinetic powers; a community swimming pool on a bright summer day becomes the setting for a ghastly nightmare of sacrifice and loss; a thief does bloody battle with a Yakuza for the soul of a horse god; a priest must solve the mystery of a century-old serial killer or risk the apocalypse; a newly-married couple discover that relationships-gone-bad can be poisonous, and deadly; a child is forced to make an ultimate choice between letting his parents die or living with the monsters they may become; and when a boy is trapped on a beach at low tide, he must face death in many forms - that of the rising water coming to consume him and the ghost of his dead mother who wants him back, reaching for him with dark, longing arms...</div></div>