Book description
This volume commemorates Nicholas Kaufmann's twenty-five years as a writer of weird fiction, which began with the story "La Bête Est Morte" (2000). In this diverse volume of his recent tales we find narratives such as "The Fire and the Stag" and "The Fifth Horseman," which suggest that the universe…
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1 author picked Monuments in Darkness as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Nicholas technically writes horror, but his stories (this is a book of short stories) are so character-based it can be easy to forget that scary, sometimes gory stuff is coming your way. Well, almost. He's full of fantastic ideas that come well-researched, and he doesn't cave to happy endings. His characters go through the wringer -- twice. But he's also compulsively readable and exciting with his plots. So consider this horror with a dab of literary on the side, a collection of short stories that will take you to dark places and leave you there until you decide that actually,…
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