Man on the Ceiling, The (Discoveries)
by Steve Rasnic Tem
from Wizards of the Coast Discoveries
Two interwoven memoirs of love, loss, and family with a haunted, frightening edge.
In 2000, American Fantasy Press published an unassuming chapbook titled The Man on the Ceiling. Inside was a dark, surreal, discomfiting story of the horrors that can befall a family. It was so powerful that it won the Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award, and World Fantasy Award--the only work ever to win all three. Now, Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem have re-imagined the story, expanding on the ideas to create a compelling work that examines how people find a family, how they hold a family together despite incomprehensible tragedy, and how, in the end, they find love.
Loosely autobiographical, The Man on the Ceiling has the feel of a family portrait painted by Salvador Dali, where story and reality blend to find the one thing that neither can offer alone: truth.
The Ice Downstream
by Tem Melanie
from e-reads.com
Chilled to the Bone : A Chill Anthology of Horror and Dark Fantasy
A Chill Anthology of Horror and Dark Fantasy
Revenant
by Melanie Tem
from eReads
Regret and denial haunt the ghost town of Revenant. It is the last chance for the living to give the dead the gift of freedom. The pedophile, the mother who talks to her dead children, the father with an image of his son before the accident, the little boy yearning for his birth mother, and a girl mourning her phantom aborted baby, all congregate in Revenant for the final judgment. Either let them go or spend eternity in a vast wasteland, endlessly floating. There is a presence in Revenant: ancient, powerful and hungry. To indulge her endless suffering, she must feed on the souls of the tormented. All she has to do is wait, and they will be drawn to her for a final kiss. Welcome to Revenant, enjoy your stay in the land of the dead.
BEST NEW HORROR (2) Two: The Dead Love You; The Last Feast of Harlequin; Cedar Lane; Alive in Venice; His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood; The Original Dr Shade; Master Ice Cold; Stephen; On the Town Route; Negatives; Aquarium; The Co-op; Lord of the Land
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