Touching the Flame
Stretch out your hand, your fingers. Closer, closer. Can you feel the
heat? You know you shouldn't, but the flame is so pretty, so bright...
Now what can you see?
A man is imprisoned and tortured for information he doesn't have,
while another finds he has incredible powers of mental projection... A
doctor seeks the answer to the ultimate question and at the same time
one writer is handed the biggest break of his life... A night out on
the town has dire consequences for a gang of youths and a strange maze
holds mysteries so terrifying they chill the blood... And as two
singers return from the grave, unknown disease stakes its first deadly
claim...
Spanning the whole of his career so far, "Touching the Flame" is a
worthy follow-up to Paul Kane's well-received first collection. Just be
careful you don't get buried...
Contents:
- Introduction: Burnt Fingers (by Simon Clark)
- The Torturer
- Astral
- The Face of Death
- Shadow Writer
- Prey
- Star-Pool
- Visiting Hour
- Facades
- At the Heart of the Maze
- The Bones Brothers
- Nightlife
- The Hypnotist's Gaze
- Grandpa's Chair
- The Disease
- Blackout
- St August's Flame
- The Persistence of Dali
- Eye of the Beholder
- Melted Wax
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Paul Kane
Paul Kane is the award-winning, bestselling author and editor of over fifty books – including the Arrowhead trilogy (gathered together in the sellout Hooded Man omnibus, revolving around a post-apocalyptic version of Robin Hood), The Butterfly Man and Other Stories, Hellbound Hearts and The Mammoth Book of Body Horror. His non-fiction books include The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy and Voices in the Dark, and his genre journalism has appeared in the likes of SFX, Rue Morgue and DeathRay. He has been a Guest at Alt.Fiction five times, was a Guest at the first SFX Weekender, at Thought Bubble in 2011, Derbyshire Literary Festival and Off the Shelf in 2012, Monster Mash and Event Horizon in 2013, and Edge-Lit in 2014, as well as being a panellist at FantasyCon and the World Fantasy Convention. His work has been optioned and adapted for the big and small screen, including for network US television, plus his latest novels are Lunar (set to be turned into a feature film) and the Y.A. story The Rainbow Man (as P.B. Kane). Forthcoming from him are the collection Monsters and the sequel to RED: Blood RED. He lives in Derbyshire, UK, with his wife Marie O’Regan, his family and a black cat called Mina. Find out more at his site www.shadow-writer.co.uk which has featured Guest Writers such as Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Charlaine Harris, Dean Koontz and Guillermo del Toro.
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