Swift to Chase

Introduction by Paul TremblayPublishers Weekly top ten list for most anticipated horror/Scifi Fall 2016 releases.Laird Barrons fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan wilderness far-future dystopias and giallo-fueled nightmare vistas. All hell breaks loose in a massive apartment complex when a modern day Jack the Ripper strikes under cover of a blizzard; a woman famous for surviving a massacre hits the road to flee the limelight and finds her misadventures have only begun; while tracking a missing B-movie actor a team of man hunters crashes in the Yukon Delta and soon realize the Arctic is another name for hell; an atomic-powered cyborg war dog loyally assists his master in the overthrow of a far-future dystopian empire; following an occult initiation ritual a man is stalked by a psychopathic sorority girl and her team of horrifically disfigured henchmen; a rich lunatic invites several high school classmates to his mansion for a night of sex drugs and CIA-funded black ops experiments; and other glimpses into occulted realities a razors slice beyond our own. Combining hardboiled noir psychological horror and the occult Swift to Chase continues three-time Shirley Jackson Award winner Barrons harrowing inquiry into the darkness of the human heart.