Growing Things and Other Stories - Paul Tremblay

A chilling anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts..

In The Teacher, a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story, a student is forced to watch a disturbing video that will haunt and torment her and her classmates’ lives.

Four men rob a pawn shop at gunpoint only to vanish, one-by-one, as they speed away from the crime scene in The Getaway.

In Swim Wants to Know If It’s as Bad as Swim Thinks, a meth addict kidnaps her daughter from her estranged mother as their town is terrorized by a giant monster . . . or not.

Joining these haunting works are stories linked to Tremblay’s previous novels. The tour de force metafictional novella Notes from the Dog Walkers deconstructs horror and publishing, possibly bringing in a character from A Head Full of Ghosts, all while serving as a prequel to Disappearance at Devil’s Rock. “The Thirteenth Temple” follows another character from A Head Full of Ghosts—Merry, who has published a tell-all memoir written years after the events of the novel. And the title story, Growing Things, a shivery tale loosely shared between the sisters in A Head Full of Ghosts, is told here in full.

From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored. As he lowers the sky and yanks the ground from beneath our feet, we are compelled to contemplate the darkness inside our own hearts and minds.

Contents:

Growing things 
Swim wants to know if it's as bad as swim thinks 
Something about birds 
The getaway 
Nineteen snapshots of Dennisport 
Where we all will be 
The teacher 
Notes for "The Barn in the Wild" 
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Our town's monster 
A haunted house is a wheel upon which some are broken 
It won't go away 
Notes from the dog walkers 
Further questions for the somnambulist 
The ice tower 
The society of the monsterhood 
Her red right hand 
It's against the law to feed the ducks 
The thirteenth temple 

Sprog: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781785657849
Sidetal: 476
Genre: Horror
Forfatter: Paul Tremblay
Forlag: Titan Books