The Devil's in the Flaws & Other Dark Truths
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Publisher Description
This new collection of stories from USA Today bestselling, multiple Bram Stoker winning author David Niall Wilson presents twenty-stories and a brand new, unpublished novella. Wilson’s work has been collected several times in digital only formats. This is the first major collection released since his award-nominated Defining Moments, and the subsequent collection Ennui & Other States of Madness. The introduction is written by Richard Chizmar, author of CHASING THE BOOGEYMAN and GWENDY'S FINAL TASK (With Stephen King)
“Reading The Devil’s in the Flaws and Other Dark Truths is a wild experience. Some of the tales are short, some a bit longer. The settings and plots pendulum from gritty realism to hyper-surreal. But the thread that runs through them all is David Niall’s Wilson uncanny ability to draw you into his world and render you helpless to look away no matter how uncomfortable you get. I absolutely loved this collection.” --Jonathan Janz, Author of Marla and The Siren and the Specter
Included in this collection:
Unique *
The Milk of Paradise
A Prayer for 0443
She Mourned *
Anomaly
One *
You are Just Like Gods
Interred *
Etched Deep
His Cold Gourd Heart *
Fear of Flying *
Little Ghosts *
One Off from Prime
If You Were Glass
Angels
Slider
Teachable Moments *
The Whirling Man
The Last Patriot *
Wayne's World
The Devil's in the Flaws *
* Original to this collection
Wilson has nearly forty books in print including novels, tie-in work, children’s books and more. He is CEO of Crossroad Press, a cutting edge hybrid publishing company, and a previous president of the Horror Writer’s Association. His latest novel is an alternate history fantasy retelling of the Noah’s Ark story, Jurassic Ark. His upcoming works include the novel Tattered Remnants, a collection of short stories based in his fictional setting of Old Mill, North Carolina, and stories in several upcoming anthologies.
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In the preface to these 21 tales from Bram Stoker Award winner Wilson (This Is My Blood), the author associates himself with writers like Stephen King, setting expectations for some classic horror shorts, but in practice this collection is hard to pin down, blurring genre boundaries between horror, sci-fi, and fantasy and offering up slippery, hard-to-grasp stories. The most engrossing tales are those that follow a familiar logic, including "Anomaly," a Lovecraftian sci-fi piece that steadily increases the tension on the way to a surprising but satisfying reveal. Meanwhile, the least successful, like the bite-size "Unique," are those which, though vivid and imagery-dense, fail to relay comprehensible plot or meaning and are instead overcrowded with scenic detail. The winding eponymous novella, original to this collection, follows a man seeking to fulfill a childhood oath made with a friend from whom he has since drifted apart, an act which turns out to involve a portal through a tapestry hung in the back room of a pawn shop, and another world in which unknown creatures lurk. Though these stories won't keep readers up at night, they will certainly provoke contemplation.
