Synopsis
"A poet of misfits, outsiders and the forsaken, his empathy for their suffering ever poignant."
– Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual
"Joel Lane understood and expertly exploited the connection between exterior and interior landscapes like no other. The Witnesses Are Gone is a masterwork of paranoid, destabilizing weird fiction and it will leave you unmoored for days."
– Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club
Moving into an old and decaying house, Martin Swann discovers a box of video cassettes in the garden shed. One of them is a bootleg copy of a morbid and disturbing film by obscure French director, Jean Rien.
The discovery leads Martin on a search for the director’s other films, and for a way to understand Rien’s filmography, drawing him away from his home and his lover into a shadowy realm of secrets, rituals and creeping decay. An encounter with a crazed film journalist in Gravesend leads to drug-fuelled visions in Paris – and finally to the Mexican desert where a grim revelation awaits.
The Witnesses Are Gone is a first-hand account of a journey into the darkest parts of the underworld – a look behind the screen on which our collective nightmares play.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY M JOHN HARRISON
Release date: January 19, 2023
Publisher: Diversion Books
Print pages: 100
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