David Peak

The world has been swallowed by strangeness. A new reality-a "horror reality"-has taken hold. David Peak's The Spectacle of the Void examines the boundaries of the irreal and the beyond, exploring horror's singular ability to communicate the unknown through language and image. It is also a speculative work that gazes unflinchingly at the inevitable extinction of mankind, questioning whether or not the burden of our knowing we will someday cease to exist is a burden after all, or rather the very notion that will set us free.

The Spectacle of the Void

From David Peak (The Spectacle of the Void) comes Corpsepaint, a novel of black metal brutality, human malevolence, and pure cosmic horror.

Corpsepaint

World Below

Comprised of stories ranging a wide variety of styles and influences, "Glowing in the Dark" is a hallway leading nowhere. In the distance, a darkness, and within, a glowing just out of reach. A pulsing mass of bone and tissue is discovered beneath a sofa; gigantic mosquitoes haunt feverish dreamscapes; a man lives inside the body of a giant, buried in the blood-soaked ground. In these worlds, atoms are unstable, new dimensions uncurl beneath teeth, and violence is a brother.

Glowing in the Dark

Decades ago, Dan and Grace Robertson encountered a childhood legend: Bicycle Bob. Some say he's an insane drifter with a taste for blood. Others call him evil made flesh and claim his touch will poison your soul. Some say he's just another country ghost story. Now, Dan is a cemetery caretaker who prefers the solace of his work to the complexities of living people. Grace persists as a strung-out addict living on the fringes. Grace has set a desperate plan in motion, and Dan is the only one who knows the root of her madness. He alone can uncover the unholy monstrosity hungering beneath the surface of a dying town. David Peak's The River Through the Trees is a grotesque of impoverished rural life, a life of quiet acceptance broken only by drugs, death metal, desecration, and the teachings of an ancient book. Combining the compelling pacing of Lehane, the cosmic terror of Lovecraft, and the defunct modernity of Ligotti, it is a taut, disturbing story whose haunting images bring to mind the dark places we do our best to ignore. DAVID PEAK is the author of Surface Tension and Glowing in the Dark.

The River Through the Trees

Dreams from the Darklands

'Without my perception of it, the world cannot live.' This truism lies at the heart of &quote;Miss Woo Country&quote;, a darkly comic, thoughtful and meticulously observant novel. Taking place in just one moment on an ordinary day in a care facility, the chair-bound narrator's life has its being and then dies, but quietly and beautifully so and with a smile on its face.

Miss Woo Country

Erotic - adjective. Relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement.

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