{"product_id":"unseaming-paperback","title":"Unseaming - 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\u003eLaird Barron\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2014 Shirley Jackson Award finalist for best collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e2014 This Is Horror Award finalist for best collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e2015 Chesley Award finalist for best cover \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Mike Allen has put together a first class collection of horror and dark fantasy. \u003cem\u003eUnseaming\u003c\/em\u003e burns bright as hell among its peers.\u003cbr\u003e --Laird Barron, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Everyone in the world awakens covered in blood-and no one knows where the blood came from. A childhood doll arrives to tear its owner's reality limb from limb. A portal to the spirit realm stretches wide on the Appalachian Trail, and something more than human crawls through on eight legs. Words of comfort change to terrifying sounds as a force from outside time speaks through them. The buttons in the bin will unseam your flesh to bare your nastiest secrets.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Opening with \"The Button Bin,\" a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and culminating with its sequel, \"The Quiltmaker,\" which Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Laird Barron has hailed as Mike Allen's masterpiece, this debut collection gathers fourteen horror tales that, in the words of Barron's introduction, \"rival anything committed to paper by the likes of contemporary masters such as Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell, or Caitl n Kiernan. This is raw, visceral, and sometimes bloody stuff. Primal stuff.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMore praise for \u003cem\u003eUnseaming\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Throughout \u003cem\u003eUnseaming\u003c\/em\u003e, reality is usually in bad shape right from the start-and from there things proceed to go downhill. Such is the general background and trajectory of life in Mike Allen's fictional world. More could be said, of course, but there's one thing that I feel especially urged to say: these stories are \u003cem\u003efun\u003c\/em\u003e. Not \"good\" fun, and certainly not \"good clean\" fun. They are too unnerving for those modifiers, too serious, like laughter in the dark-unnerving, serious laughter that leads you through Mr. Allen's funhouse. The reality in there is also in bad shape, deliberately so, just for the seriously unnerving fun of it. The prose is poetic, except it's nonsense poetry, the poetry of deteriorating realities, intermingling realities, realities without Reality. And all the while that unnerving, serious laughter keeps getting louder and louder. Are we having fun yet?\u003cbr\u003e --Thomas Ligotti, author of \u003cem\u003eTeatro Grottesco\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Spectral Link \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47237445484793,"sku":"9780988912410","price":17.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/dWNUWGsyL25sUEtXeWJEa0R0VDRzZz09.webp?v=1768539658","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/unseaming-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}