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2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (nominee)
The new story collection from the only writer ever to have won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story four times... this eBook additionally includes a bonus story, THE GIST.
"It's not the craft and skill that Michael Marshall Smith displays in his short stories that I object to. It's not the easy wit, or the comfortable way he deploys language as a weapon. It's not even that way that he can conjure people so real in so few words. It's that, when a Mike Smith short story is over, it's pretty much guaranteed that there will be some moment, scene or revelation frozen in the back of my mind that I'll never be able to get out of my head, not even if I scrub it with wire wool so it bleeds."
- Neil Gaiman
"Michael Marshall Smith's short stories are consistently sharp, slick, original, witty, disquieting, entertaining, and plain brilliant."
- Graham Joyce
"Michael Marshall Smith writes the kind of dreams we don't like to talk about, but can't get out of our minds once we've had them."
Jonathan Carroll
"If any reader unfamiliar with Smith's work needs proof that he is one of the more entertaining and creatively imaginative writers working in fantasy and the macabre, this fits the bill."
- Stefan Dziemianowicz, Locus
"Michael Marshall Smith is the most consistently brilliant short story author I have worked with over the past twenty years. He continues to amaze and delight me with the wit, intelligence and sheer creativity of his writing."
- Stephen Jones
Genre: Horror
"It's not the craft and skill that Michael Marshall Smith displays in his short stories that I object to. It's not the easy wit, or the comfortable way he deploys language as a weapon. It's not even that way that he can conjure people so real in so few words. It's that, when a Mike Smith short story is over, it's pretty much guaranteed that there will be some moment, scene or revelation frozen in the back of my mind that I'll never be able to get out of my head, not even if I scrub it with wire wool so it bleeds."
- Neil Gaiman
"Michael Marshall Smith's short stories are consistently sharp, slick, original, witty, disquieting, entertaining, and plain brilliant."
- Graham Joyce
"Michael Marshall Smith writes the kind of dreams we don't like to talk about, but can't get out of our minds once we've had them."
Jonathan Carroll
"If any reader unfamiliar with Smith's work needs proof that he is one of the more entertaining and creatively imaginative writers working in fantasy and the macabre, this fits the bill."
- Stefan Dziemianowicz, Locus
"Michael Marshall Smith is the most consistently brilliant short story author I have worked with over the past twenty years. He continues to amaze and delight me with the wit, intelligence and sheer creativity of his writing."
- Stephen Jones
Genre: Horror
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