"These smart, unsettling stories give us, with vivid detail, both
the squalidly ordinary and the terrifyingly extraordinary-and make
clear how closely the two are linked."-Ben H. Winters,
Edgar-Award-Winning author of "The Last Policeman"
"Clint Smith's "Ghouljaw" stories use vivid imagery to build
intense close-ups that connect reader with character, then adds
psychologies corrupted by sex, loss, betrayal, guilt, cowardice,
denial, and that fatal flaw pomposity. With sprightly literate
language he twists old motifs into new shapes of the rural gothic,
often embodied in some of the spookiest "monsters from the id" yet
imagined-creatures gory, squishy, bloody, witchy, wild. Not to
forget a demonic "dog" that scared the bejesus out of me The
monsters of humanity, too, find new life here, as blood cults,
avenging mystics, violent poachers, PTSD, and repressed memories
incarnate. Clint Smith's "Ghouljaw" releases into the reader's
world a darkness that teaches, shakes, and warns. Read and after a
night of tossing sleep you'll awaken changed. For the better? Well,
as it is with Smith's characters, that matter's up to you."-Jim
Powell, MFA, Senior Lecturer, IUPUI
Over the past several years, Clint Smith has established himself
as a powerfully imaginative writer of weird fiction. In this first
collection of short stories, Smith demonstrates the multifaceted
talents that will establish him as one of the notable weird writers
of his generation.
What distinguishes Smith's work is both the originality of its
weird conceptions and its careful delineation of human character.
One of his earliest tales, "Benthos," features both these
qualities, telling a grim tale of alienated youth and drug-taking
that veers into the grotesquely supernatural. In "The Tell-Tale
Offal," Smith cleverly updates Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" in a
grisly story of physical horror. In "What Happens in Hell Stays in
Hell," Smith uses the war in Afghanistan as a chilling backdrop to
unthinkable horrors unleashed in the parched sands of the Middle
East.
"I have no doubt that Clint Smith will be heard from in the future
as a leading practitioner of the modern weird tale. The stories in
this collection testify not only to his literary potential but to
his already significant accomplishments."-From S. T. Joshi's
foreword
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