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The White Hands and Other Weird Tales

By: Mark Samuel
Narrated by: Mark Young
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This is the first collection of strange stories by contemporary writer Mark Samuels. The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan European feel. Mark Samuels writes about the fundamental fears of modern life, especially the effects of isolation and the dislocation that city dwellers can experience in their inhospitable, man-made environment. H.P. Lovecraft wrote about entities beyond human comprehension that might be summoned from beyond the stars, but did he ever consider that they would feel quite at home in the sodium glare of some run-down inner-city? When one of Samuels's characters stands alone looking up at the vast, illimitable darkness of space, the reader is forced to wonder if there is much difference between the hopeless emptiness of eternity and the bleak interstices between the concrete and steel of their daily life?

©2004 Mark Samuel (P)2022 Bookstream GmbH Anthologies & Short Stories Horror Short Stories
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Compelling short stories of weird literature that are well-written and easy to follow. This book is great, much in the same vein as Thomas Ligotti, but with less oppressive nihilism and more exciting weirdness and cleverness. I wish the audiobook didn’t have 100+ undistinguished chapters, as it makes relistening to specific stories a trial-and-error process

Great collection of weird literature.

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