The Nameless Dark: A Collection
by T. E. Grau
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The Nameless Dark debuts a major new voice in contemporary Weird fiction. Within these pages, you’ll find whispers of the familiar ghosts of the classic pulps - Lovecraft, Bradbury, Smith - blended with Grau’s uniquely macabre, witty storytelling, securing his place at the table amid this current Renaissance of literary horror. A finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection!“The Nameless Dark is a horribly good collection from the incredibly versatile T.E. Grau, show more featuring stories ranging from the nihilistically bleak to the darkly humorous. You’ll find harrowing accounts of modern day life alongside stories of an old west that’s wild with monstrous things, Lovecraftian horror holding hands with the Ligottian. Each story is written with a clear love for language, the prose evocative, heartfelt, and often heartbreaking, providing observations of human nature that are wickedly astute and well considered. The stars must have been right when he wrote this because Grau has created magic here, magic of a very dark kind. The Nameless Dark is an excellent collection — I loved it.” — Ray Cluley, author of Probably Monsters and Within the Wind, Beneath the Snow''What's most impressive about T. E. Grau's stunning debut collection is the range of his settings and histories, and of the desperate and authentic voices of his doomed characters. The cumulative effect of these smart, evocative, unsettling creepers is a sense of dread as deep as the secret ocean underneath Nebraska.'' --Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts. show lessTags
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So...um...holy shit!
T.E. Grau, where have you been all my life? So, the one advantage of COVID has been the time to catch up on my stupendously long To Be Read pile. Now, I know that I picked this collection up based either on an article or a recommendation from a fellow reader...but I truly can't remember who or what turned me on to Grau...I only know I'm grateful.
I'm quite fond of saying that, with any anthology, there's usually a number of good-to-great stories, along with a couple of stinkers. Two authors have recently proven me completely wrong in that assessment. The first was [a:Philip Fracassi|701084|Philip Fracassi|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1543853727p2/701084.jpg], with his absolutely brilliant [b:Behold the show more Void|43268331|Behold the Void|Philip Fracassi|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1545196277l/43268331._SY75_.jpg|55011875]. The second is now T.E. Grau, with this collection.
Every single story is just amazing. Every. Single. Story.
And he can write anything, from 19th Century horror-westerns to future military/Lovecraftian horror to...well, anything he seems to put his mind to.
I'm in awe of this author.
Damn. show less
T.E. Grau, where have you been all my life? So, the one advantage of COVID has been the time to catch up on my stupendously long To Be Read pile. Now, I know that I picked this collection up based either on an article or a recommendation from a fellow reader...but I truly can't remember who or what turned me on to Grau...I only know I'm grateful.
I'm quite fond of saying that, with any anthology, there's usually a number of good-to-great stories, along with a couple of stinkers. Two authors have recently proven me completely wrong in that assessment. The first was [a:Philip Fracassi|701084|Philip Fracassi|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1543853727p2/701084.jpg], with his absolutely brilliant [b:Behold the show more Void|43268331|Behold the Void|Philip Fracassi|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1545196277l/43268331._SY75_.jpg|55011875]. The second is now T.E. Grau, with this collection.
Every single story is just amazing. Every. Single. Story.
And he can write anything, from 19th Century horror-westerns to future military/Lovecraftian horror to...well, anything he seems to put his mind to.
I'm in awe of this author.
Damn. show less
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