Eye
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- $3.99
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
You might perceive it as an unblinking scrutiny of such topical issues as sex, obsession, idol worship, penny miracles, policing the birthrate, breast implants, mysterious phone calls in the dead of night, pornography, eternal youth, and the price of devotion. With whom -- or what -- are you really crawling into bed, in the dark?
Or you might view it as a phantasmagoric kaleidoscope of sex, monsters, empaths, telepaths, aliens, peewee crime kingpins, otherworldly lovers, sentient art, UFOs, "rectosonics", and Mexican wrestling.
You could behold this book's contents as a spectacle of serial love, hot and cold lust, betrayal, and relationships seen from both ends of the telescope. Or a long, hard look into killers, from inside their POV and out, murder, mayhem, death, and things worse than death.
Or you could stop reading this hard sell and start eyeballing the thirteen stories that comprise this collection -- Eye.
Unhasped
2¢ Worth
Blessed Event
Quebradora
Bagged
Entr'acte
Holiday
Watcher of the Skies
Petition
Calendar Girl
Scoop Goes Rectosonic
Why Rudy Can't Read
Saturnalia
Murder (bonus short story)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Prominent horror writer and screenwriter Schow (Crypt Orchids; The Crow) coined the term "splatterpunk" to describe the graphic variety of contemporary horror fiction that he illustrates in this collection of new and previously published stories. Guiding the reader through the minds of forgetful murderers, masochists and vampires who use acid-filled breast implants for self-defense, these tales present a brightly lit world where reality can oftentimes prove more frightening than the grotesque. In "Entr'acte," for example, Schow profiles Paul, an insomniac, who--after receiving an anonymous call warning, "She's not human, get out now"--spends the evening trying to discover whether or not his wife is an alien. While drifting awake the next morning, Paul can't determine whether his all-too-real experience was a dream or not. By contrast, "Petition" pits Bill, a man who possesses the ability to hear the prayers of others, against a sexually abusive horror of a man whose hollow prayers plague Bill and drive him to drug use and eventually murder. For readers who enjoy intelligent, sometimes challenging horror, this spellbinding collection will prove to be a quick, chilling read--though much of the material is shocking. As a bonus, in an intimate afterword Schow ruminates on each story and offers some opinionated remarks on the politics of creating a book.
