Plots and Misadventures

By Stephen Gallagher

If the truth be told the short story is probably the superior form, because there's no getting away with anything. You get it exactly right or it doesn't work at all. Eleven flights of fancy and one true story... but it can be hard to say where fancy ends and the truth begins. In this, his second collection of short fiction, award-winning author and screenwriter Stephen Gallagher delivers his unique take on the weird, the wonderful and the downright strange. These are tales in which the world is very much as we know it, but charged with a sense of the wonders that lie in wait just beneath the surface of our everyday reality. Grisly goings-on in a tattoo parlour... A bereaved girl's poetic revenge... Hunting fairies with pickup truck and cattle prod... Along with The Blackwood Oak, a novella making its first appearance between these covers, the stories have been drawn together from sources as diverse as Weird Tales, Subterranean, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter Chills, and The Dark.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596061146
• ISBN13: 9781596061149
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Subterranean Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Top notch!

Summing up the stories contained within the two covers of this book in a few lines would do great injustice to the author as well as the prospective readers of this book. Although the book can be categorised under any of the 'head'-s: horror, science-fiction and fantasy, these stories often go beyond the limitations of such genres by developing a dark & strange colouration that is the hallmark of Gallagher's work. My humble suggestion to the future readers is to read one story at a time, otherwise the world might appear a little "different" to you. Subterranean Press has done a wonderful job with respect to this book, but my copy, despite being signed, is devoid of the number. Neverthless, this is a quality book with quality stories, and hence is recommended.