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Glyphotech

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Introduction by Ramsey Campbell. Cover art by Jason Van Hollander.

The fourth in our series of PS Showcase mini-collections of short stories from some of genre fiction's best up-and-coming writers.

In the introduction to this collection Ramsey Campbell states that the two modern masters of urban weirdness are Thomas Ligotti and Mark Samuels. Inside this book you will find weird things indeed, not least the likes of:

  • The fungus-riddled mannequin in the lunatic asylum
  • The reconstruction company that works with life and death
  • The legal nightmare where the sane are guilty
  • A horror writing convention taken over by black magic cannibals
  • The Punch and Judy show broadcast live after death
  • The strange fate of the reincarnation of H.P. Lovecraft

Contents:

  • Introduction by Ramsey Campbell
  • Glyphotech
  • Sentinels
  • Patient 704
  • Shallaballah
  • Ghoria
  • Cesare Thodol: Some Lines Written on a Wall
  • The Cannibal Kings of Horror
  • "Destination Nihil" by Edmund Bertrand
  • The Vanishing Point
  • Regina vs. Zoskia
  • A Gentleman from Mexico
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Mark Samuels

Mark Samuels is a London-based writer of horror and fantastic fiction in the tradition of Arthur Machen and H. P. Lovecraft. Born in 1967 in Clapham, South London, he was first published in 1988, and his short stories often focus on detailing a shadowy modern London in which the protagonists gradually discover a dark…

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