The Return of Count Electric and Other Stories
In the title story – which tells of a letter from the past that sends a middle-aged man in search of a diabolical engine of death and the identity of a legendary murderer – and other stories, William Browning Spencer demonstrates a wildly imaginative, non-stop narrative skill in the tradition of Roald Dahl and John Collier.
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Wedding Photographer in Crisis
- Haunted by the Horror King
- The Entomologists at Obala
- The Return of Count Electric
- Graven Images
- Pep Talk
- Looking Out for Eleanor
- Snow
- A Child's Christmas in Florida
- Best Man
- Daughter Doom
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William Browning Spencer
William Browning Spencer (born 1946) is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surreally humorous. His novel Résumé with Monsters conflates soul-destroying H. P. Lovecraftian horrors with soul-destroying lousy jobs.
His story "The Death of the Novel" was a 1995 Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Short Story.
In 2005, his short story "Pep Talk" was turned into a short film by writer Eric B. Anderson and director Scott Smith (Project Greenlight) and premiered at the Santa Fe Film Festival in December 2006.
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