Collapse of Horses

A provocative collection of literary horror stories by one of America's most acclaimed and inventive writers whose unique prose "e;can be soul-shaking"e; (New Yorker). "e;Preoccupied with the uncanny, the unsettling, and the unknowable"e; (The Los Angeles Review), Evenson's seventeen stories in this collection "e;evoke Kafka, some Poe, some Beckett, some Roald Dahl, and . . . Stephen King"e; (The New York Times Sunday Book Review). Whether it's a stuffed bear's heart that beats with the rhythm of a dead baby, or the city of Reno that keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive, or a mine on another planet where the dust won't stop seeping in, the astonishing stories in A Collapse of Horses range from horror to science fiction to noir and all the weird, edgy places in between. Wherever Evenson takes you in his minimalist horror, he "e;doesn't shy away from blood, murder, apparitions, surrealism, dreams, torture, and weirdness, but he also refrains from letting those elements take over"e; (Electric Lit).