The Shuddering Breath Before Oblivion

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In his final collection of short stories once again we are invited into Taylor Grant's unique and macabre imagination. A man discovers a portal in his basement that offers him an infinite variety of alternate lives he can live. A woman seeks revenge on the man who destroyed her life. In treating a young man's haunted memories of a childhood trauma a psychiatrist uncovers terrifying possibilities. A property speculator gets more than she bargained for when she buys an unsellable house in a small town with a morbid obsession with Halloween. And in the collection's title story a journalist fights to solve the mystery of a world of disappearing people. Come on in and explore the dark labyrinths of the human mind and what it's capable of if you dare.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Taylor Grant's stories burrow into your mind like a dark seed innocuous at first growing until they overtake you. These stories are all winners each bringing Grant's classic blend of twist-filled California macabre with a heaping dose of EC comics. This volume is a terrific testament to a life's work ... one that should find a place on the shelf amongst his heroes and peers.</em><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-John Palisano Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of <em>Requiem </em>and <em>Ghost Heart</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I've always admired Taylor Grant's extraordinary gifts for lifting up life's most mundane rocks - bureaucracy crushing jobs middle-class striving fragile egos - and shining a light on the things slithering through the darkness beneath. His fiction can be wryly amusing or even reassuring but it's always disturbing and The Shuddering Breath Before Oblivion should be a welcome addition to any collection of great horror.</em><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-</strong><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Lisa Morton six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Proudly represented by </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Crystal Lake Publishing-Where Stories Come Alive!</strong></p>