ASIN: B004Z9E2Z6
Publisher: DISTILLATIONS PRESS
Pages: 271
"In Powell’s twisted stories, the bizarre thrives right alongside everyday ordinariness. Girls turn into crayons, zombies lure the living with irresistible Ponzi schemes, hotel suites turn macabre band managers. All the while, menace lurks in the most mundane things—in the smile of a genial salesman, in the unassuming hitch hiker on a lonely road, even in babies. In ‘Buy it Now’, an innocent online purchase changes a man’s life forever. A wall in ‘Brinn’s Mural’ gives new meaning to the word ‘self defense’ when it is threatened by neighborhood vandals. A man discovers a changeling in place of his baby, in the deftly plotted shocker, ‘Usurper’. ‘9 Curzon Place’ tells the tale of an apartment inducting musicians into a ghostly rock band of its own making, while an old campus building in ‘The Light in Greenbriar Hall’ houses an unpleasant surprise for anyone foolish enough to intrude on ...
