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“Here is how monstrous humans are.”

A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men―of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans. In this new short story…

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I haven't decided which of Evenson's short story collections is my favorite, but The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell is up there. 

He is a master of using ambiguity in horror; you never know when starting each story whether it will be about a true flesh-and-blood monster, or just a simmering madness in the narrator's head, or something else beyond comprehension.

His style is stark and direct, leaving you no space to hide from the strange mind-bending forces or half-defined malevolent entities which haunt his pages.

I'm hardly the first to call Evenson a modern-day Poe, but he has a…

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