There is no Heaven and there is no Hell. There’s only the Underworld, with the ravening maw of Oblivion at the bottom and the impossible dream of Transcendence at the top. And, somewhere in between, are scores of Restless Dead.
Lovecraftian cosmic terror meets modern-day conspiracy in these 33 brief tales of horror and personal apocalypse.
Bringing Work Home
Baptism
Go and Sleep No More
The Sea and Time
Farming
Last (and/or) Only
Lost and Found
Escape
Change Is Like a Season
In the Shuffle
Dad
On the Strange Events at Prentice Farms
Single Vehicle Fatality
Family
A Kindness
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Trust Falls
Charlie Is Lost
Involuntary
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Remember those nice stories they told you about what’d happen after you died?
They were wrong.
There is no Heaven and there is no Hell. There’s only the Underworld, with the ravening maw of Oblivion at the bottom and the impossible dream of Transcendence at the top. And, somewhere in between, are scores of Restless Dead.
Are you ready to join them?
This collection of stories is inspired by... [click here for more]
Story Summary
A shapeshifter hero battles ancient spirits, a covert government agency, and his own dark past in a race to solve a murder that could mean the end of the world.
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"I can’t remember the last time I read a book that spoke to me, so eloquently, and so deeply, on so many levels. ... I’ll be rereading it in the future because it’s that sort of... [click here for more]
Reviews
AURORA AWARD WINNER from a multi-award winning author. "Doug Smith is, quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the science fiction and fantasy genres, and he's also the most prolific. His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think." —Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author... [click here for more]
No Evil is Wide is the violent story of an unnamed narrator, the prostitute he is tasked to “find,” and Carpenter Wells, a man who has lost his soul and wanders, empty, unable to quench his desire. The remembrances of the narrator revolve around sexual awakening, family distance and dissolution—how they crumble to common and inevitable animalism. It is filled with philosophical epistles... [click here for more]
The Mental Shrillness ward will shock with six twist ending horror tales:
Memorial Day Descent - experience a showdown between an old mansion and a soldier's painful, recurring war memories. A first place story contest winner.
Pains in the Glass - Tim and Wanda love each other but neither sees the cracks in their flawed marriage looking glass. Today is the day one learns of betrayal... [click here for more]
Product Description
Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author
We all have things we hide away inside—secrets, fears, aspects of ourselves we keep locked away. Or try to.
In that respect, the characters we meet in Douglas Smith's Impossibilia are like any of us. They have things inside them too. Only their things are a little... different.
A dead wife that... [click here for more]
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