I Know A Place
Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours
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Publisher Description
An instant USA Today Bestseller! The first collection from author Nat Cassidy, featuring his unique blend of gleefully terrifying short fiction, and including a brand-new introduction from the master of horror himself, Stephen King!.
"These stories are f*cking great. They rule. So read them." – Stephen King, from his introduction
There are locations in this world where the light doesn’t seem to reach. Where, no matter how illuminated the place might be, shadows creep in too strongly to fight back.
A suspiciously empty gas station rest stop in the middle of the night, littered with googley eyes... A doctor’s office, where a bottle of booze and a tear-stained folder wait on the desk... A tech millionaire’s haunted kitchen... A Bible-quoting ventriloquist’s dingy apartment... A yoga retreat in the middle of the desert, silent except for the screaming...
These locations and more are your destination and bestselling author Nat Cassidy will be your guide. Featuring the Bram Stoker Award-nominated, critically acclaimed novella Rest Stop (one of Esquire’s Best Horror Books of 2024), along with a number of other original short stories, some which have never been published before, I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours is a travelogue down twisting side streets and through alleyways where the darkness has eyes... and teeth.
Let’s hope you make it home in one piece.
"A blood-soaked freakout that does for gas stations what Jaws did for beaches." —Kirkus Reviews, on Rest Stop
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The harrowing first short story collection from Cassidy (Mary) is a dense exploration of madness and depravity complete with a healthy dose of gore. While all 13 tales are chilling, Cassidy nimbly hops genres throughout—including a foray into poetry in the fungal fairy tale "A Fruiting Body." The standout opening novella, Rest Stop, follows a young bassist in a metal band who gets trapped in a desolate gas station with a supernatural killer. In the dystopian future of "Generation," babies develop bizarre mutations in utero, while "Run for Your Life" offers a morbid, time-bending reimagining of the origins of the Beatles. Cassidy's biting sense of humor shines through the mounting dread of these relentlessly upsetting tales. Those looking for restraint when it comes to blood and guts won't find it here, but there's a refreshing streak of irreverence amid the gloom and clever nods to the canon of horror writers that paved the way. Splatterpunk fans will be thrilled.
