While the sun blisters a dying world, a mutant spider battles a squad of toy soldiers and a plastic cowboy on his last ride...
A gangster, a sheriff, and a mysterious traveler face an army of
mechanical vampires burrowing up from hell itself during a wild Montana
storm...
In a desert poisoned by atomic radiation, an
abused boy stands between a rampaging giant and the hunter who would
make him a grisly trophy...
Beneath a full Arizona moon, a drifter faces a pack of merciless human animals and the werewolf who
butchered his sister...
In the American West, a legendary gunslinger delivers a cursed bounty to the one-horse town where his
partner's ghost awaits.
Tales of hardboiled horror and
Twilight Zone noir. Cross-genre blowtorches with bad guys and worse
guys. Love stories both dark and bittersweet. A brand new novella and
extensive story notes. You'll find this and more in the fifth collection from three-time Bram Stoker award-winner Norman Partridge, an author
Locus calls "one of the most dependable, exciting, and entertaining
practitioners of dark suspense and dark fantasy... emphasis on the
dark."
In Lesser Demons, Partridge explores the kind of fiction that made him both a horror fan and a writer. Using the shotgun prose of a crime novel, the title story draws a deadly bead on H. P.
Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. "The Iron Dead" introduces Chaney, a
monster-hunting pulp hero with a mechanical hand built in hell.
"Carrion" cuts a mean swath through Robert E. Howard territory, while
'The Big Man' explores dark shadows of American life never imagined in
the atom-age horror movies of the fifties.
Part
celebration, part reinvention, Lesser Demons only serves to underscore
RevolutionSF's verdict: "Norman Partridge is the finest writer of short
horror fiction going."
