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Modern horror's King of Pain, the World Fantasy Award-and Bram Stoker Award-nominated John F.D. Taff, joins Bad Hand Books with a collection of cosmic-horror novellas: All the Stars Die.
Here's just a taste of what to expect.
• "After the Cut, the Blood": Talent doesn't always go hand-in-hand with desire, but two musical brothers take a dark path toward forcing the issue.
• "Her Mouth is filled with Secret Soup": A boy's initial contact with a turn-of-the-century travelling medicine show reveals it's not just selling, it's conscripting labor.
• "Fin de Siècle": An early 20th-Century occultist millionaire acquires the world's biggest telescope, not to see stars and planets but to open a doorway between worlds.
• "In the Dim Meadows, Desolate": The old gods aren't dead and neither is their need for the love of man, but is the love he offers now enough?
• "All the Stars Die One by One": NASA finally uncovers the true relationship between the earth and the moon, one that brings all mankind together at last.
• "Tell Me What it Means to Me": Guilt and shame unites the people of a fractured small town together in one place... Midnight Land.
John F.D. Taff is a multi-Bram Stoker Award finalist and World Fantasy Award finalist dark fiction author with more than 30 years experience, and more than 125 short stories and seven novels in print.He has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Unnerving, Deathrealm, Big Pulp and One Buck Horror, as well as anthologies such as Hot Blood: Seeds of Fear, Hot Blood: Fear the Fever, Shock Rock II, Lullabies for Suffering, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Behold!, Shadows Over Main Street 2 & 3, Horror Library V, Best of Horror Library, Dark Visions Vol. 1, Ominous Realities, Death's Realm, I Can Taste the Blood Human Monsters, and Savage Beasts and Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse and Bad Manners.His novels include The Bell Witch, Kill-Off and the serialized apocalyptic epic The Fearing. Short fiction collections include The End in All Beginnings, Little Deaths: The Definitive Collection, Little Black Spots, and his latest novella collection, All the Stars Die.Taff's novella collection, The End in All Beginnings, was called one of the best novella collections by Jack Ketchum and was a Stoker Award Finalist. His short "A Winter's Tale" was also a Stoker Finalist.His anthology Dark Stars, a tribute to that seminal '80s work Dark Forces, was a finalist for the World Fantasy award.
"With this outstanding story collection, All the Stars Die, John Taff tears holes in the firmament of the universe, revealing the terrors of what we cannot see. A wonderfully eerie, haunting, and awe-inspiring read." ― Alma Katsu, author of Fiend
"In the age-old tradition of the ultimate entertainment, John Taff is a storyteller. It's old school and it's new. It's haunting but has hope. Not because Taff wraps his stories in bows, but because he's so damn good you can't help but feel lifted. The dialogue is off the charts, the voice is as welcoming as a plush couch found in haunted woods. Nobody is doing what Taff does. If you read him at fifteen, he'd be the guy who got you into books. If you read him now, you'll renew your vows." ― Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Incidents Around the House
"A powerful and original take on cosmic horror that, despite revealing the dreadful darkness beyond the stars, remains richly and painfully human, bound up in suffering, loss, and regret." ― Brian Evenson, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Song for the Unraveling of the World
Here's just a taste of what to expect.
• "After the Cut, the Blood": Talent doesn't always go hand-in-hand with desire, but two musical brothers take a dark path toward forcing the issue.
• "Her Mouth is filled with Secret Soup": A boy's initial contact with a turn-of-the-century travelling medicine show reveals it's not just selling, it's conscripting labor.
• "Fin de Siècle": An early 20th-Century occultist millionaire acquires the world's biggest telescope, not to see stars and planets but to open a doorway between worlds.
• "In the Dim Meadows, Desolate": The old gods aren't dead and neither is their need for the love of man, but is the love he offers now enough?
• "All the Stars Die One by One": NASA finally uncovers the true relationship between the earth and the moon, one that brings all mankind together at last.
• "Tell Me What it Means to Me": Guilt and shame unites the people of a fractured small town together in one place... Midnight Land.
John F.D. Taff is a multi-Bram Stoker Award finalist and World Fantasy Award finalist dark fiction author with more than 30 years experience, and more than 125 short stories and seven novels in print.He has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Unnerving, Deathrealm, Big Pulp and One Buck Horror, as well as anthologies such as Hot Blood: Seeds of Fear, Hot Blood: Fear the Fever, Shock Rock II, Lullabies for Suffering, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Behold!, Shadows Over Main Street 2 & 3, Horror Library V, Best of Horror Library, Dark Visions Vol. 1, Ominous Realities, Death's Realm, I Can Taste the Blood Human Monsters, and Savage Beasts and Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse and Bad Manners.His novels include The Bell Witch, Kill-Off and the serialized apocalyptic epic The Fearing. Short fiction collections include The End in All Beginnings, Little Deaths: The Definitive Collection, Little Black Spots, and his latest novella collection, All the Stars Die.Taff's novella collection, The End in All Beginnings, was called one of the best novella collections by Jack Ketchum and was a Stoker Award Finalist. His short "A Winter's Tale" was also a Stoker Finalist.His anthology Dark Stars, a tribute to that seminal '80s work Dark Forces, was a finalist for the World Fantasy award.
"With this outstanding story collection, All the Stars Die, John Taff tears holes in the firmament of the universe, revealing the terrors of what we cannot see. A wonderfully eerie, haunting, and awe-inspiring read." ― Alma Katsu, author of Fiend
"In the age-old tradition of the ultimate entertainment, John Taff is a storyteller. It's old school and it's new. It's haunting but has hope. Not because Taff wraps his stories in bows, but because he's so damn good you can't help but feel lifted. The dialogue is off the charts, the voice is as welcoming as a plush couch found in haunted woods. Nobody is doing what Taff does. If you read him at fifteen, he'd be the guy who got you into books. If you read him now, you'll renew your vows." ― Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Incidents Around the House
"A powerful and original take on cosmic horror that, despite revealing the dreadful darkness beyond the stars, remains richly and painfully human, bound up in suffering, loss, and regret." ― Brian Evenson, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Song for the Unraveling of the World