Tales of Pain & Wonder

Rating:
Summary: Spectacular!
Review: Even at $50, this book is a bargain. It's easily the best collection of horror fiction since Thomas Ligotti's magnum opus The Nightmare Factory. Kiernan is surely the most vital voice in this genre in a long, long time and is a genuine master (or is that mistress?) of the short story.

Rating:
Summary: Spectacular!
Review: Even at $50, this book is a bargain. It's easily the best collection of horror fiction since Thomas Ligotti's magnum opus The Nightmare Factory. Kiernan is surely the most vital voice in this genre in a long, long time and is a genuine master (or is that mistress?) of the short story.

Rating:
Summary: More Wonderful than anything
Review: This fantastic signed limited book (signed by Keirnan, Peter Straub, Douglas Winter and Artist Richard KirK) takes you into this world that you didn't know existed. In some cases, you don't want to have existed but in your heart these people you meet are real, enough to touch, smell and get smeared by the blood they produce. They live their own existence outside ours and you take their lives in this book and read about them in one sitting, drawn in as characters re-occur after knowing the night of Pain they experienced and the drugs and alcohol they need to continue. Except they don't know that, this is their life and we are granted an instant with them. Ms. Keirnan even gives an alternate table of contents which allows you to read the stories as they were written if that interests you. The formation of one of the strongest new prose writers to come our way. This Gauntlet Limited is a fantastic blend of Keirnans stories and one you should not miss.