From the award-winning author Brian Evenson comes Immobility, a far-future thriller that looks at a post-human world struggling to stay humanWhen you open your eyes things already seem to be happening without you. You don't know who you are and you don't remember where you've been. You know the world has changed, that a catastrophe has destroyed what used to exist before, but you can't remember exactly what did exist before. And you're paralyzed from the w...

From a modern master of the form, a new short story collection that dexterously walks the tightrope between literary fiction, sci-fi, and horror.A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient’s room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to ...

A prequel to Dead Space, the novel focuses on the birth of Unitology. In this novel set centuries before the events of the main series, geophysicist Michael Altman investigates an alien artefact called The Black Marker.We have seen the future.A universe cursed with life after death.It all started deep beneath the Yucatan peninsula, where an archaeological discovery took us into a new age, bringing us face-to-face with our origins and destiny...

A prequel to Dead Space, the novel focuses on the Black Marker. This novel set centuries before the events of the main series, elaborates on the lore of the Markers established in Dead Space 2 and 3.Two hundred and fifty years in the future, extinction threatens mankind. Tampering with dangerous technology from the Black Marker—an ancient alien artifact discovered on Earth eighty years earlier— Earthgov hopes to save humanity. But the Mar...

To find a cult leader’s killer, a former detective must literally give up his body in this award-winning work of literary horror—“A dark treat” (AV Club). Nominated for the Shirley Jackson award and winner of the ALA/RUSA Best Horror novel, Brian Evenson’s Last Days is an intense, profoundly unsettling down-the-rabbit-hole detective noir. Kline is a former detective who’s cool head in the face of a brutal amputation makes him the perfect candidate to infiltrate a dark cult that believes am...

A provocative collection of literary horror stories by one of America’s most acclaimed and inventive writers whose unique prose “can be soul-shaking” (New Yorker). “Preoccupied with the uncanny, the unsettling, and the unknowable” (The Los Angeles Review), Evenson’s seventeen stories in this collection “evoke Kafka, some Poe, some Beckett, some Roald Dahl, and . . . Stephen King” (The New York Times Sunday Book Review). Whether it’s a stuffed bear’s heart that beats with the rhythm of a de...

Dopo l'amputazione di una mano Kline, agente sotto copertura, vive un'esistenza solitaria: trascorre il tempo nel suo appartamento, refrattario a qualsiasi tipo di contatto. Un giorno, però, il telefono squilla. "È la fortuna che bussa," dicono due sconosciuti, offrono un'interessante opportunità di lavoro. Kline non ne vuole sapere ma i suoi interlocutori non stanno davvero chiedendo. Viene quindi portato controvoglia nel quartier generale della Confraternita della Mutilazione, ed entra n...

“Here is how monstrous humans are.”A sentient, murderous prosthetic leg; shadowy creatures lurking behind a shimmering wall; brutal barrow men—of all the terrors that populate The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell, perhaps the most alarming are the beings who decimated the habitable Earth: humans. In this new short story collection, Brian Evenson envisions a chilling future beyond the Anthropocene that forces excruciating decisions about survival and self-sacr...

Il prevosto Fochs, membro della Chiesa del Sangue dell'Agnello, è inquieto. Le sue notti sono turbate da orrendi incubi in cui abusa di alcuni ragazzini della congregazione, allo scopo di purificarli dal male. In un altro sogno uccide una giovane in una radura vicino a casa. Tormentato dal pensiero della colpa e sollecitato dalla moglie, Fochs accetta finalmente di vedere uno psicoanalista. Il dottor Feshtig tiene nota delle loro sedute, finché la cronaca cittadina non si popola di episodi...

Explore all aspects of programming with Python in this comprehensive resource. Expert programmer Brian Evenson guides you from the fundamentals of using modules through the use of advanced objectorientation classes. Salient Features:1 Learn how to develop complex applications, create multimedia software, and develop interactive Web sites. 2 While written with the experienced programmer in mind, it is an invaluable source-book for the beginning programmer as well. 3 The book also covers how...

“Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up another person. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up not a person at all.”From the “master of literary horror” (GQ) comes a collection of new stories tracing the limits and consequences of artificial intelligence and “post-human” relationships. Populated by twins stepping into worlds of absence, bears who lick their cubs into creation, and artificial beings haunted by their less-than-human nature, each page sketches a world wher...

Winner of the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards: "Twenty insanely inventive, hauntingly atmospheric and flat out coo coo for Cocoa Puffs stories" ( Hellnotes).A World Fantasy Award nominee, "this anthology . . . is a collection of some of the most talented horror and speculative fiction authors writing today" ( BuzzFeed). It includes all-new stories by Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Caítlin R. Kiernan, Garth Nix, Mich...