DOOMSDAYS by Jeffrey Thomas. Colusa, CA; Dark Regions Press; 2007. 1st edition trade paperback. Everyday is a Doomsday. Every hour is someone's private Armageddon. In this collection of twenty-two Apoclaypses one will encounter: -An Earth buried under strange blue ash, and overrun with the blue-encrusted undead, -The dead of multiple wars, returning on one Halloween night, -Puppet beings made from human trash, living and loving in a secrect kingdom, -A ghastly graveyard cherub that won't stay put, -A monstrous version of ourselves, released from a parallel dimension and bent on our destruction. Haunted Factories, a haunted zoo, worlds both surreal and nightmarish, stalked by phantoms, murderers, and monsters...unleashed from the rich imagination of Jeffrey Thomas, the acclaimed author of Punktown and Letters From Hades. "Jeffrey Thomas is a writer to watch. I just can't put down his books once I start them." -Douglas Clegg, author of The Priest of Blood. "With brutal elegance and chilling subtlety, Thomas pulls his readers into his dark visions immediately from every opening line." -Paul Di Filippo, in Asimov's. Issued as a SIGNED trade paperback. Fine. |