The Nine Thoughts

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This deceptively 'small volume' is a propulsive missing-persons mystery that deepens into an existential psychodrama as resonant as E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Sandman or a season of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>True Detective</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>. Like the mute ferryman it draws you toward its dread unveiling; like a siren pitched just beyond range singing the hidden harmony behind all things.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-Derek Nikitas author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Pyres</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Long Division</em></p><p></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Book after book Stefan Kiesbye has been building a stimulating darkness shot through with the razor-sharp brilliance of his prose which once it gets hold of your mind never ceases to dazzle you. This kind of radiant darkness reaches a higher level of unsettling excellence in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Nine Thoughts</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> a work of literary art so charged with mounting metaphysical dread that it poses new challenges for contemporary weird fiction. From Santa Rosa to London from Florida to Waldron Island Kiesbye devises a journey in search for answers to three mysterious and apparently ritualistic murders and in the process turns the classic investigation story on its head in order to create an eerie transformative voyage into the heart of loss grief death and the presence of other personas among our everyday identity. Beware all ye who enter </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Nine Thoughts</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> since once you finish this compelling page-turner you won't be able to look at the world around you in the same way again. Beware and rejoice-</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Northern California noir has found its new true master.</span></p><p class=ql-align-right><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-Mauricio Montiel Figueiras</span></p><p class=ql-align-right><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Funeral</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and co-author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Proper Imposters</em></p><p></p><p></p>