The Girlfriend Game
"These lovely stories float out to us from a long, dark alley-way where Franz Kafka and Bruno Schultz are mugging Ray  Bradbury.... Nick Antosca has reached a level of blissful mastery."- Peter Straub, author ofGhost Story, Koko,andShadowland"Antosca's scalpel dissects love, family, and illusions of morality in this brutal and often uncomfortably sexual collection. Combining scathing horror and psychological realism, these 12 vivisections of the inhuman condition marry stinging social commentary with psychological horror... This literate, thoughtful horror will inspire long-lasting unease."-Publishers Weekly"A stunning book that proves Antosca is one of the bravest and most original voices in contemporary literary fiction"- Gabino Iglesias,The Coffin Factory"Nick Antosca'swriting is an astonishment, mature, gripping, wide-ranging, unique in thought and approach."- John Crowley, author ofLittle, BigandAegypt"Antosca once again peels back the skin of our society to reveal the horror within."- Brian Evenson, author ofLast DaysandThe Open Curtain"Nick Antosca reminds me of Flannery O'Connor in the way he both loves and hates these people he clearly knows intimately."- Victor Lavalle, author ofBig MachineandThe Devil in Silver"It's a lovely, melancholy feeling... The clarity and sharpness of his writing [is] sometimes ruminative and poetic, but stone cold sober when it needs to be." - David Rice,HTMLGIANT