{"product_id":"the-spider-tapestries-seven-strange-stories-paperback","title":"The Spider Tapestries: Seven Strange Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMike Allen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNicole Kornher-Stace\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mike Allen will infect your subconscious with hallucinatory and alarming delight. This book is a must-read for fans of weird fiction and dark fantasy.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Helen Marshall, World Fantasy Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eGifts for the One who Comes After\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Surrender yourself to \u003cem\u003eThe Spider Tapestries\u003c\/em\u003e and let these tales rewire your mind.\" --Scott Nicolay, World Fantasy Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eDo You Like to Look at Monsters?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Spider Tapestries\u003c\/em\u003e, Mike Allen's sophomore short story collection, takes a wrecking ball to genre boundaries, showcasing seven stories that mix transhuman noir, Lovecraftian horror, and surrealistic sorcery in an exploration of the further reaches of the Weird. Readers who savored the disorienting strangeness in Allen's debut collection \u003cem\u003eUnseaming\u003c\/em\u003e, a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and Amazon.com horror fiction bestseller, will find \u003cem\u003eThe Spider Tapestries\u003c\/em\u003e begins where \u003cem\u003eUnseaming\u003c\/em\u003e left off.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As Nicole Kornher-Stace, author of \u003cem\u003eArchivist Wasp\u003c\/em\u003e, explains in her introduction, \"Allen outdoes himself even further, borrowing and synthesizing across genres with gleeful abandon....This results in stories like 'Twa Sisters, ' with an atmosphere and setting as if Heironymous Bosch had been brought in as a consultant on Blade Runner. Or 'Sleepless, Burning Life, ' which, with simultaneous nods to steampunk and metaphysics, explores and upends the familiar trope of Mortal Chosen by the Gods.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 140\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52522834231603,"sku":"9780988912465","price":28.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dDF3OHg4WjFDWHVaN1FkQld3OGhuUT09.webp?v=1760558044","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-spider-tapestries-seven-strange-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}