The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales

Attila Veres Hungarys leading horror writer makes his English debut at last in this groundbreaking new collection featuring ten of his finest tales. The volume opens with To Bite a Dog in which a mans budding relationship is jeopardized by his girlfriends bizarre and macabre habit involving dogs. Fogtown tells of a legendary 90s rock band whose music nobody has ever actually heard but which might nonetheless spell doom for a man obsessed with finding their recordings. Multiplied by Zero is a wry travelogue in which a man recounts his hellish experiences on a holiday tour exploring Lovecraftian landscapes. And in the title story The Black Maybe which Steve Rasnic Tem calls one of the weirdest tales Ive read in years a girl and her family escape the city bustle to experience farm life only to discover with unimaginable horror the truth of what is really being harvested there.These tales showcase a range of genres and styles from weird fiction to folk horror to cosmic horror and reveal a dazzlingly original new writer whose stories are thrilling frightening often blackly humorous and totally unlike anything you have read before.