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Often the most powerful and moving stories are generated by writers
who return time and again to a particular idea, theme, or image.
Obsession in a writer's imagination can lead to accomplishment or
to self-destruction. Consider Poe and his pale, dead bride; his
fascination with confinement and mortality; his illness and
premature death. Or Flannery O'Connor's far less soul-crushing
fondness for peacocks. Some writers pay a high price for their
obsessions, while others maintain a crucial distance. Whichever the
case, obsessions can produce compelling fiction.
Little Visible Delight is an anthology of original stories in
which eleven authors of dark fiction explore some their most
intimate, writerly obsessions.
The laughter of a dead child echoes down the winding streets of a
town in Spain... A mysterious stranger makes increasingly
disquieting visits to a lonely English instructor in Central
Europe... A woman experiences her own literal disintegration as
someone - or something - from her past takes over her life...but
who is the possessed and who is possessing? In return for the
ability to touch the miraculous, the residents of an isolated
mountain community are busily manufacturing items they don't
understand in preparation for a future they cannot imagine... With
eight reprints from the pages of such publications as Black Static,
The Third Alternative, and Supernatural Tales and three original
tales, this chilling debut collection by Lynda E. Rucker will fill
you with unease and unsettle your dreams. "Lynda Rucker's great
talent is that she is able to carefully build a perceptive
portrayal of the real world and in the process of that exploration
find that edge where the everyday dissolves and the numinous
begins. Her compelling execution of this transition strongly echoes
the work of Robert Aickman." - Steve Rasnic Tem
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