Two dozen dark tales from one of Australia's finest genre writers.
Drawing on inspiration from such diverse sources as Japanese mythology,
European folklore, modern urban legends, and ancient native Australian
and American traditions, as well as the literature of Shakespeare, T.S.
Eliot, Bram Stoker, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe – the author
tells stories of humanity's deepest desires and most dreadful
nightmares. Dedman journeys into the past, present, and future... to the
jungles of Malaysia, outback ghost towns, and modern metropolises... to
places both too familiar and unfamiliar to give comfort.
An
accomplished storyteller, Dedman re-imagines supernatural entities like
vampires, succubi, and ghosts and combines them with modern terrors
such as ecological and scientific horrors and the eternal evils of the
political and the rperverse. His stories are disturbing, erotic, or
amusing – or any combination of the three.
With one original story and
several never published in the United States or the United Kingdom,Never Seen by Waking Eyes will serve as an apt introduction for many to
the darker short works of Stephen Dedman.
