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Fugue State

(2009)
A collection of stories by

 
 
Awards
2010 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee)
2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (nominee)
2010 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee)

Illustrated by graphic novelist Zak Sally, Brian Evenson's hallucinatory and darkly comic stories of paranoia, pursuit, sensory deprivation, amnesia, and retribution rattle the cages of the psyche and peer into the gaping moral chasm that opens when we become estranged from ourselves. From sadistic bosses with secret fears to a woman trapped in a mime's imaginary box, and from a post-apocalyptic misidentified Messiah to unwitting portraitists of the dead, the mind-bending world of this modern-day Edgar Allan Poe exposes the horror contained within our daily lives.


Genre: Mystery

Praise for this book

"Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe." - Jonathan Lethem


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