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Horror has a price...are you ready to feed the dark?
"Simmons draws from a well with waters dark and deep, that taste of guilt, despair and fear, to cultivate his surprising and inventive tales of horror." -
Adam Nevill, British Fantasy Award Winning author of
The Ritual
and
No One Gets Out Alive
Writers and readers enact an insidious ritual, giving birth to terrible new realities. Shadow House Publishing reveals the secret geography of nightmare in
WE FEED THE DARK: TALES OF TERROR, LOSS & THE SUPERNATURAL
, the first collection in 15 years by critically acclaimed author William P. Simmons.
In 2006, after earning a reputation as a unique new voice in horror, Simmons disappeared. He returns with a stunning and heart wrenching collection of interconnected fiction, autobiography, and revelation. These atmospheric and visionary stories chart the terror, loss, and supernatural dread that both he and his characters have experienced.
Simmons tells us a terrible truth: we feed the dark, nourishing it with our fears and desires. In turn, we are fed by it. This collection subverts reality and perception, asking where fiction ends, and reality begins.
Originally published in such venues as
Cemetery Dance
&
Dark Discoveries
, these critically acclaimed supernatural and psychological tales include three Honorable Mentions from
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror
. Featured in
Rue Morgue
,
All Hallows
, and
Publisher's Weekly
, Simmons' atmospheric weird fiction has been praised by bestselling authors T.M. Wright, Nancy Kilpatrick, Hugh B. Cave, Peter Bell, Graham Masterton, and many others. This metafictional assault tells the story of a haunted life...and the secret life of stories.
In Harper's Mill, a rural New York village just outside the Catskills, shadows walk, nightmares live, and reality is as restless as the dead. A child flees from spectral punishers in an endless cemetery; a widow attacks her husband's spirit; a teacher is tormented by abandoned children; salesmen replace people's personalities, and a woman is reshaped by her lover's desire.
In shadowlands between our sunlit world and the unknown, a husband watches his wife's nightly suicide, a corpse leads a recluse to salvation inside a wall, and death claims people unlucky enough to fit into a peculiar jacket. In a key story of both this collection and Simmons' life, a father tells his children stories to protect them from the "Night Man", a terrifying figure who only fiction can repel.
"Feed the Dark", Simmons' first new tale in over a decade, is a metafictional confession that suggests the reasons behind his disappearance, his writing, and the sentient darkness that shapes our lives.
In a funeral feast of supernatural horror, magic realism, and numinous suspense, Simmons invites you to savor dread. You may never look at fiction–or life–the same.
Together, you will feed the dark.
Table of Contents:
A Fabulous, Formless Darkness
The Dead Boy in the Wall
The Costumers
They Never Come Back
The Wind, When It Comes
The Forgotten
Little Plastic Men
Echoes
Naughty, You?
The Right Size
The Woman Beneath
Telling Stories in the Dark
Daddy's Little-Bitty Pretty One
The Cleaning
Feed the Dark
"Great collection. Resonant and bleak, and especially appreciated the book's introduction, which placed the project and stories in context. Particularly enjoyed stories "The Dead Boy in the Wall," "Telling Stories in the Dark," and "Feed the Dark." If words may cut like knives, prepare to be eviscerated by William P. Simmons' newest collection. Grim and gripping, WE FEED THE DARK explores both horrors of the spectral and of everyday life, and what occurs when those extents inescapably collide." -
Eric J. Guignard, award-winning author and editor, including
That Which Grows Wild
Doorways to the Deadeye
"With We Feed The Dark: Tales Of Terror, Loss & The Supernatural, William P. Simmons returns with a haunting, meta-fictional study in fear and grief. Filled with stories that act like inky, black tendrils. murking about in your mind just long enough to find your darkest fears, We Feed The Dark is hungry for more. A fellow traveller on these dark roads, stop at his campfire and let some of his best stories keep you company for the night." -
John Palisano, Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of
Ghost Heart
, President of The Horror Writers Association
"Simmons draws from a well with waters dark and deep, that taste of guilt, despair and fear, to cultivate his surprising and inventive tales of horror." -
Adam Nevill, British Fantasy Award Winning author of
The Ritual
and
No One Gets Out Alive
Writers and readers enact an insidious ritual, giving birth to terrible new realities. Shadow House Publishing reveals the secret geography of nightmare in
WE FEED THE DARK: TALES OF TERROR, LOSS & THE SUPERNATURAL
, the first collection in 15 years by critically acclaimed author William P. Simmons.
In 2006, after earning a reputation as a unique new voice in horror, Simmons disappeared. He returns with a stunning and heart wrenching collection of interconnected fiction, autobiography, and revelation. These atmospheric and visionary stories chart the terror, loss, and supernatural dread that both he and his characters have experienced.
Simmons tells us a terrible truth: we feed the dark, nourishing it with our fears and desires. In turn, we are fed by it. This collection subverts reality and perception, asking where fiction ends, and reality begins.
Originally published in such venues as
Cemetery Dance
&
Dark Discoveries
, these critically acclaimed supernatural and psychological tales include three Honorable Mentions from
The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror
. Featured in
Rue Morgue
,
All Hallows
, and
Publisher's Weekly
, Simmons' atmospheric weird fiction has been praised by bestselling authors T.M. Wright, Nancy Kilpatrick, Hugh B. Cave, Peter Bell, Graham Masterton, and many others. This metafictional assault tells the story of a haunted life...and the secret life of stories.
In Harper's Mill, a rural New York village just outside the Catskills, shadows walk, nightmares live, and reality is as restless as the dead. A child flees from spectral punishers in an endless cemetery; a widow attacks her husband's spirit; a teacher is tormented by abandoned children; salesmen replace people's personalities, and a woman is reshaped by her lover's desire.
In shadowlands between our sunlit world and the unknown, a husband watches his wife's nightly suicide, a corpse leads a recluse to salvation inside a wall, and death claims people unlucky enough to fit into a peculiar jacket. In a key story of both this collection and Simmons' life, a father tells his children stories to protect them from the "Night Man", a terrifying figure who only fiction can repel.
"Feed the Dark", Simmons' first new tale in over a decade, is a metafictional confession that suggests the reasons behind his disappearance, his writing, and the sentient darkness that shapes our lives.
In a funeral feast of supernatural horror, magic realism, and numinous suspense, Simmons invites you to savor dread. You may never look at fiction–or life–the same.
Together, you will feed the dark.
Table of Contents:
A Fabulous, Formless Darkness
The Dead Boy in the Wall
The Costumers
They Never Come Back
The Wind, When It Comes
The Forgotten
Little Plastic Men
Echoes
Naughty, You?
The Right Size
The Woman Beneath
Telling Stories in the Dark
Daddy's Little-Bitty Pretty One
The Cleaning
Feed the Dark
"Great collection. Resonant and bleak, and especially appreciated the book's introduction, which placed the project and stories in context. Particularly enjoyed stories "The Dead Boy in the Wall," "Telling Stories in the Dark," and "Feed the Dark." If words may cut like knives, prepare to be eviscerated by William P. Simmons' newest collection. Grim and gripping, WE FEED THE DARK explores both horrors of the spectral and of everyday life, and what occurs when those extents inescapably collide." -
Eric J. Guignard, award-winning author and editor, including
That Which Grows Wild
Doorways to the Deadeye
"With We Feed The Dark: Tales Of Terror, Loss & The Supernatural, William P. Simmons returns with a haunting, meta-fictional study in fear and grief. Filled with stories that act like inky, black tendrils. murking about in your mind just long enough to find your darkest fears, We Feed The Dark is hungry for more. A fellow traveller on these dark roads, stop at his campfire and let some of his best stories keep you company for the night." -
John Palisano, Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of
Ghost Heart
, President of The Horror Writers Association
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