Scream queen
Subtitle: and other tales of menace
By: Ed Gorman ; with an introduction by Tom Piccirilli
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Perfect Crime Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Baltimore, MD]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781935797548
Subjects: American Short stories; American Suspense fiction; American Horror tales; City and town life; Fiction; Nouvelles américaines; Roman à suspense américain; Récits d'horreur américains
Description: 14 stories by a master of dark suspense who does for the American Midwest what Stephen King has done for Maine. In the title story, a young man working in a video store is captivated when the actress he has lusted after in so many horror films arrives in town hiding her identity. Says crime novelist Tom Piccirilli in his introduction: "[T]his new collection, like all the collections before it, is full of atmospheric, dark tales of folks pushed too far, haunted characters trying to clear their heads or their guilt-laden souls." With an afterword in which Gorman discusses the origins of some of his work.
Notes: Includes questions and interview with the author (p. [216]-219).
Table of contents: title: Angie --; title: The order of things unknown --; title: Mother darkness --; title: Scream Queen --; title: Cages --; title: En famille --; title: Beauty --; title: Famous blue raincoat --; title: Render unto Caesar --; title: Stalker --; title: Duty --; title: Out there in the darkness --; title: The brasher girl --; title: Calculated risk.