Mammoth Books presents Telling

Book 451: Mammoth Books

by Steve Rasnic Tem

Genres: Horror

Synopsis

The author reveals the following story "...began with a dreadful image at the end of a dream. I couldn't remember the other details of that dream, but I was determined to find out where that image might have come from."

Release date: July 26, 2012

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Print pages: 160

Sample

 

STEVE RASNIC TEM’S RECENT stories have appeared in Asimov’s, Black Wings II and the Ellen Datlow anthology Blood & Other Cravings. His new novel, Deadfall Hotel, will be published by Solaris Books in early 2012, while New Pulp Press will be bringing out a collection of his noir short stories, Ugly Behavior, later the same year.

“As for the following story,” reveals the author, “it began with a dreadful image at the end of a dream. I couldn’t remember the other details of that dream, but I was determined to find out where that image might have come from.”

 

 

BEFORE HE MET MAGGIE, he thought he understood the difference between sense and nonsense. By the end, and he could smell it coming – redolent of fish and sweaty sheets – he could hardly tell the difference between breath and flesh.

They had visited three,. . .