Allen Koszowski, Illustrator, Gary A. Braunbeck, Author I D I Publications $35 (570p) ISBN 978-1-881475-21-7
When a character in this collection of 40 potent fantasies calls ""sabotage and subversion""... the goals of my life, and my stories,"" he might well be speaking for the author. Braunbeck, in his fiction debut, shows a talent for getting under the...
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Gary A. Braunbeck, Author . Cemetery Dance $40 (216p) ISBN 978-1-58767-085-5
The open road is a malleable metaphor pregnant with dark and dangerous possibilities in this uneven trilogy of tales from Stoker-winner Braunbeck (Home Before Dark
). "The Ballad of Road Mama and Daddy Bliss" is an outré first-person...
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Gary A. Braunbeck, Author . Leisure $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8439-6190-4
Veteran horrormeister Braunbeck breaks literary rules by the handful in his latest dark fantasy yarn, which makes reference to 2007's Mr. Hands
and 2008's Coffin County
without exactly being a sequel. When a high school student goes on...
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Gary A. Braunbeck, Author Wildside Press $32.95 (260p) ISBN 978-1-59224-603-8
Gary A. Braunbeck's Fear in a Handful of Dust: Horror as a Way of Life gathers a good chunk of the Bram Stoker nominee's provocative writings on film and fiction, most of which appeared in Eldritch Tales, The Scream Factory and other small-press
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Gary A. Braunbeck, Author Obsidian Books, Etc $29 (350p) ISBN 978-1-891480-05-8
Braunbeck's debut as a dark fantasy novelist shows the same passion and originality as his short fiction collection, Things Left Behind (1997)--and the same fearless sidesteps into obscurity. The grim realism of the first chapter belies the...
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Gary A. Braunbeck. JournalStone (journalstone.com), $29.95 trade paper (574p) ISBN 978-1-942712-59-6
This comprehensive collection, spanning 30 years of horror maven Braunbeck’s career, is an excellent showcase of his considerable talents, with stories running the gamut from all-out horror to more introspective chills. “Don’t Sit Under the Apple...
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Gary A. Braunbeck. Raw Dog Screaming, $17.95 trade paper (226p) ISBN 978-1-947879-24-9
Bram Stoker Award winner Braunbeck (Rose of Sharon) brings together an uneven but enjoyable collection of 15 short works of dark fantasy. The similarities in tone and narrators cause many of these pieces to blur together, though there are a few hard-
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Gary A. Braunbeck, Author, Alan M. Clark, Joint Author . IFD $45 (312p) ISBN 978-0-9671912-4-9
Souls lost in personal limbos of guilt, regret and alienation reveal the depth and horror of purgatory in this dynamic collection of fantasy fiction and art. In the introduction, Braunbeck (The Indifference of Heaven) interprets the human and...
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Gary A. Braunbeck, Author, Brian A. Hopkins, Introduction by Wildside Press $27.95 (164p) ISBN 978-1-59224-597-0
Drawing on her experience as a veterinarian, Claire spins a sweet confection about a couple torn apart by tragedy and brought together again by a big, adorable dog. The year after her friend Jenny died in a car crash, Joy left Wharton, Ky., unsure...
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Gary A. Braunbeck, Author, Deena Holland, Illustrator Earthling Publications $40 (399p) ISBN 978-0-9721518-2-5
Fantasist Gary A. Braunbeck (This Flesh Unknown) has prepared definitive texts for his Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories, Volume 1, whose contents chronicle the supernatural doings in a seemingly ordinary Ohio town. Deena ...
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Edited by Christopher Golden. Gallery, $18 trade paper (544p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8309-3
The notion of the romantic vampire is transcended to chilling and even heartbreaking effect in this stellar anthology of tales collected by Golden (Tin Men). The best is Laird Barron’s atmospheric, Alaska-set “In a Cavern, in a Canyon,” in which one
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