The Dark Fantastic

ED GORMAN

Bestselling Author of Shadow Games

“Gorman’s writing is strong, fast and sleek as a bullet. He’s one of the best.”—Dean Koontz

Seventeen stories. Seventeen slices of terror. Seventeen trips into the shadows. Whether it takes place in small ­town America, a lonely highway at night, the near future, or the Old West, the real setting of each tale is the realm of nightmare, the place where imagination and fear reign.

"A master storyteller."—Dallas Morning News

No one knows this eerie realm more intimately than Ed Gorman, award-winning author and master of dark sus­pense. Now, for the first time, his greatest tales of horror and the unknown are collected in one volume, a com­pendium of the fantastic and the terrifying, the chilling and the grotesque. Brace yourself as you get ready to experience ...

THE DARK FANTASTIC

With a Special Introduction by Bentley Little

"One of the most original thriller writers around."—Kirkus

"Gorman is a class act. He's up there with Dean Koontz and Thomas Harris."—Crime Time (UK)

"Gorman knows exactly how to keep the reader on the edge of his seat."—Science Fiction Chronicle