"(James Ferace is) one of the most exciting new contemporary voices in fiction." - Gregory Norris, author of "The Fierce and Unforgiving Muse" "The Warm Chromatic Mechanism" is a collection of ten stories from author James Ferace ("Imago Mortis," "Somnambulism," "Ockham's Razor"), hand chosen by the author himself and considered by many to be some of his best work. Includes: "Afterbirth," "Blunt Force Trauma," "Cathal," "Delusions of Grandeur," "The Garden of Euthanasia," "Grief Scripture,...

"For years, the pains in his head had been excruciating...and getting worse. When the operation was finally over, they let him take home the part of his brain they had to remove to make the pains subside. But then, it began... The piece began to grow. Before long, it seemed to be taking shape...almost like that...of a human..."

Torturedbyabuseasachild,a man makes the decision to return to the place of his torment.

A man visits a patient who'd been burned in a fire. So bad he's just an undulating mass of flesh. Soon, he begins to feel he can "hear" him. Before long, he's carrying out strange tasks for him which may bind them together in unknown ways.

A small boy is haunted by dreams and nightmarish visions while a killer may or may not be stalking the countryside. (Based on concepts by Thomas Slocum and James Ferace).

Awomanconcoctsanunfathomablemethodofgettingrevengeonherrapistwhichthreatenstodestroyherhumanity.

A young man born with an unusual, benign birthmark on his hand, begins to suffer personal tragedies in his adolescence, right around the time he begins having pains in the same hand, and starts to wonder if the two things are related.

A man awakes every morning to find that he's been injured in his sleep...and, each night, the injuries are becoming worse.

A lonely man summons a nymph. After a lengthy period of contentment, however, she leaves him for another man...and his psychotic urges take over.

A man with no arms, no legs, and only half a tongue finds a way to get back at those who are taking advantage of him.

Little Odessa - a dark night in Winter. A man having domestic issues at home stumbles into a small, out-of-the-way pub to warm himself and crosses paths with a mysterious young woman who speaks not a word of English and apparently is blind, as well. He went out into the night hoping his life would change. Little did he know, it already has.

A young man's obsession with a girl erupts into violence as he plans to murder her. But his plan doesn't go quite as he expected...