Martyrs & Monsters
MARTYRS & MONSTERS
by Robert Dunbar
"The demented lovechild of Faulkner and King." - HellNotes
Robert Dunbar has been called one of the "saviors of contemporary dark fiction" and an "avatar of literary horror." Martyrs & Monsters runs the gamut of this extraordinary author's narrative range, embracing vampires and sea serpents, werewolves and swamp creatures... as well as a host of nightmares for which no names exist. Whether set on an orbiting space station or within a haunted tenement, these terrifying tales are steeped in a passionate intensity that renders them all but unique within the genre, and all boast a sophistication that qualifies them as that rarest of rare commodities: horror for intelligent adults.
"Gritty and savage... profound and quietly devastating... as much intellectual as visceral. Despite all the mayhem, a consistent humanity manifests itself, a glimmer of hope in all the madness. Quite simply, this collection represents dark fiction as it should be-chilling, entertaining, intelligent." - From the introduction by Greg F. Gifune
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Robert Dunbar
Robert Dunbar is the author of the supernatural thrillers The Pines and The Shore, both of which garnered profoundly postive reviews. He is also the author of Martyrs & Monsters - a collection of his short fiction - and a dark literary novel Willy as well as the novella Wood and the nonfiction book Vortex. He has been called "the catalyst for the new literary movement in horror" and "one of the saviors of contemporary dark fiction."
Dunbar has written for television and radio as well as for numerous newspapers and magazines. His plays and poetry have won awards, and his short fiction has been widely anthologized.
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