Echoes of Ellison

di Harvey Stanbrough (Autore)

StoneThread Publishing, 2025

An eclectic collection of fourteen intense short stories in the style of Harlan Ellison from StoneThread Publishing Echoes of Ellison contains 14 tales reminiscent of Harlan Ellison's stories, ranging from the not-quite normal to the fantastic, from the tragic to the comedic, from the dark tale to the fairytale. You'll encounter a mind cleaner who enters the mind of an angel. What will he find there? You'll climb aboard a bull with a rodeo cowboy who's beleaguered repeatedly by a black angus bull in the arena and a raven-haired woman in his dreams. You'll witness what happens when the one woman whom Giacomo Casanova has loved down through the ages works to bring him back to life, and you'll read the story of a Death Valley hiker who encounters, and is bold enough to question, God—face to face. You'll accompany a scriptwriter (and enter his mind) as he makes his way over rough terrain through a nuclear holocaust, and you'll watch a storm chaser in Oklahoma as he remembers who—or maybe what—he really is. You'll share the frustrations of a rural farmboy who was forced into manhood by the death of his father, and watch as he's tested to his limits. Then you'll learn the ground rules about all the frightening little things we don't generally admit to noticing but that we all know are there. You'll consider the morality of euthanasia and how you might one day pay the oldest debt, and you'll wade deeper into the moral morass with a cruel boy who loves to crush bugs, and the price that must be paid, and by whom. You'll also accompany a Cajun man on a single-minded mission into the backwoods of Louisiana, then witness a hell on future-Earth in "Six Days in May." Penultimately, you'll relive the story of Little Red Riding Hood with a new, improved Red who believes in magic and in herself. Finally, after the style of Hemingway in the Finca Vigia edition of The Complete Stories, you'll also get an extra short story delivered in a series of vignettes. That series of vignettes is at once a short story, a memoir, and a confession. It is truth and fiction, reality and fantasy. Of course, you're free to decide which is which. If you enjoy Harlan Ellison like stories written in the protagonist's own unique voice—come along for some fun.

• Autore: Harvey Stanbrough
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: StoneThread Publishing
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798231761432