When the Darkness Falls
Four years after his first collection of short stories, J. F. Gonzalez and Midnight Library are proud to bring you this follow-up volume. Within these pages you will find:
A nightmare in which an axe-wielding madman stalking the streets becomes reality for a young family trapped in their home during the height of a blizzard.
In a world ravaged by the living dead, one man's mission to find female companionship lands him more than he bargained for.
A magazine editor discovers that a deceased pulp writer's most notorious work is a warning of Lovecraftian nightmares yet to come on an unsuspecting world.
These are just a few of the samplings you'll find in this new major short story collection by the author of such novels as Bully, Survivor, and Clickers.
It's all here - Lovecraftian pulp horror, surreal SF, psychological and classic supernatural-based horror, and even a rare mainstream piece. This volume reprints material from obscure sources as well as mass-market anthologies.
Also included is a brand new story, "Finding the Flame." Like his previous collection, Old Ghosts and Other Revenants, this volume features stories across a wide spectrum, from the subtle to the extreme. So pull up a chair, flip the page, turn on the light and wait until...When the Darkness Falls.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Desire
- Menage A Trois
- Out of the Cradle
- Mummy
- Riding the Storm Out
- The Watcher From the Grave
- Sending Them Home
- Finding the Flame
- Offices
- Going Home
- The Lingering Scent of Brimstone
- Addict
- What Happened At Forest Green Cemetery
- Girlfriend
- Afterword
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J. F. Gonzalez
Jesus F. Gonzalez is best known as an author, primarily of horror fiction (writing under the pseudonym J. F. Gonzalez). He has written many notable novels and has done collaborations with Bram Stoker Award winners Mike Oliveri and Brian Keene. His novel Survivor has been optioned to be filmed by Chesapeake Films, and Clickers has been optioned by Cooked Goose Productions.
He is a writer who primarily works in the horror genre, with works published by such diverse companies as Leisure Books, Kensington Books, HarperCollins, Cemetery Dance Publications, Delirium Books, Bloodletting Press, and others. Ellen Datlow has listed his works in her "Recommended Reads" in her annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies.
