The Return of Count Electric and Other Stories

William Browning Spencer

Fantasy Horror Short Stories

In the title story – which tells of a letter from the past that sends a middle-aged man in search of a diabolical engine of death and the identity of a legendary murderer – and other stories, William Browning Spencer demonstrates a wildly imaginative, non-stop narrative skill in the tradition of Roald Dahl and John Collier.

Contents:

  • Introduction
  • The Wedding Photographer in Crisis
  • Haunted by the Horror King
  • The Entomologists at Obala
  • The Return of Count Electric
  • Graven Images
  • Pep Talk
  • Looking Out for Eleanor
  • Snow
  • A Child's Christmas in Florida
  • Best Man
  • Daughter Doom
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Published
1993
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William Browning Spencer

William Browning Spencer (born 1946) is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surreally humorous. His novel Résumé with Monsters conflates soul-destroying H. P. Lovecraftian horrors with soul-destroying lousy jobs. His story "The Death of the Novel" was a 1995 Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Short Story. In 2005, his short story "Pep Talk" was turned into a short film by writer Eric B. Anderson and director Scott Smith (Project Greenlight) and premiered at the Santa Fe Film Festival in December 2006.