"Evenson is interested in philosophy and semiotics, the impossibility of ever truly knowing or naming the world, and our fundamental, helpless dependence on what our senses tell us. " A Collapse of Horses is a perennially dusty, dark, haunted house of atmospheric dilemmas whose plots continually reverse a reader's expectations." -The Collagist
"Some of the stories here evoke Kafka, some Poe, some Beckett, some Roald Dahl, and one, a demonic teddy-bear chiller called "BearHeart(TM)," even Stephen King, but Evenson's deadpan style always estranges them a bit from their models: He tells his odd tales oddly, as if his mouth were dry and the words won't come out right." -New York Time Sunday Book Review "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Praised by Peter Straub for going "furthest out on the sheerest, least sheltered narrative precipice"īrian Evenson has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and is the World Fantasy Award and the winner of the International Horror Guild Award, the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel, and one of Time Out New York's top books. "Evenson's writing is something to be read in short intervals, like a good tea that you want to savor to the last drop." - Twin Cities Geek Not many writers have the imagination or the audacity to transform what looks like salvation into an utterly original outpost of hell." - Bookforum "Packed with enough atrocities to give Thomas Harris pause. "Brian Evenson is one of the few who will still be read a hundred years from now: either by our grandchildren, or by the machines who have killed our grandchildren." -Hobart, "An interview with Brian Evenson" "There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson." -George Saunders "One of the most provocative, inventive, and talented writers we have working today." The Believer "Brian Evenson is one of the treasures of American story writing, a true successor both to the generation of Coover, Barthelme, Hawkes and Co., but also to Edgar Allan Poe." -Jonathan Lethem
In these stories, Evenson unsettles us with the everyday and the extraordinary-the terror of living with the knowledge of all we cannot know.
A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby, Reno keeps receding to the east no matter how far you drive, and in a mine on another planet, the dust won't stop seeping in.
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