"Connoisseurs of cutting-edge horror will not want to miss it." -Carl Hays, Booklist Pay attention, because Conlon is one of our best, hands down." -Bram Stoker Award Winner Joe McKinney, author of MUTATED and INHERITANCE Along with Laird Barron and John Langan, Christopher Conlon is carrying the torch for literary horror in the 21st century.
I devoured them all, and I'm willing to bet you will too. The stories presented here are absolutely fantastic.
Remember that feeling you got the first time you read Ray Bradbury, or Stephen King, or Shirley Jackson, how magical the prose felt? Well, get ready to experience that magic again, because Christopher Conlon has it in spades. "THE OBLIVION ROOM is, simply put, one of the best collections of short stories I've ever read. THE OBLIVION ROOM: STORIES OF VIOLATION collects six of Christopher Conlon's most nightmarish works, tales in which the horrific can come from anywhere-or from everywhere at once. The door is open.A woman finds herself alone in a pitch-black room without doors or windows, completely cut off from human contact.A man wakes one morning certain that today is the day he must commit an unspeakable atrocity.A gifted jazz musician runs from her past-but even she has no idea how lethal that past truly is. This book, then, is a celebration of the art of storytelling hosted by two dozen dazzling talents, with Mr. Editor Christopher Conlon provides an Introduction which explains the background of Poe s unfinished tale and includes its original, unaltered text, while the completed stories reflect the amazing variety of the writers themselves from lighthearted fantasy to gothic horror, from romantic adventure to hard edged science fiction. Since the Poe fragment s original publication some sixty years ago, a few authors have attempted to complete it but this collection marks the first sustained gathering of talent to work on the piece. Posthumous collaborations for the ages collected here in this extraordinary anthology. Joining forces with Edgar Allan Poe himself. The only rule was that they use Poe s language, his images, his ideas that they truly work together with the master. These writers were given a task: to take a little known, unfinished story fragment which Poe wrote near the end of his life and turn it into a complete story in any way they wished. Poe is in no condition to be writing much these days which is why in this anthology he’s getting a little help from his friends.
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