Patrick Barb, Grey Matter Press

Gargantuana's Ghost (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Living in a society conditioned to fear him, young Antoine Santiago rides the New York subway and communes with the dead. With a love of history inherited from his late father, the city's storied past is now the only friend to this loner obsessed with a long-forgotten legend about the life and tragic death of a fabled giant ape. Armed with a bargain-basement occult instruction manual and a backpack of bananas, Antoine summons the spirit of the Great Gargantuana-a kaiju-sized primate that haunts the F Train-and vows to reunite her with the only friend she knew before meeting her end on Brooklyn's elevated tracks: Lettie, the feisty daughter of her captor, who's now living as an elderly shut-in. One miraculous evening these three outsiders, shunned by a modern, gentrifying society that barely acknowledges their existence, converge for an alarming and otherworldly adventure of unimaginable monsters, paranormal activity and improbable friendships in this tale of NYC's not-so-hidden magic and the cherished found families forged in the shadow of the Big Apple. REVIEWS FOR GARGANTUANA'S GHOST: "A heart-wrenching tale of old loves and fresh wounds; of what it means to find hope and strength in the dying embers of a life, or the loneliness of youth. A fresh, welcome take on what horror can mean." - Philip Fracassi, author of A Child Alone with Strangers "An urban fantasy grounded in the reality of human cruelty, Gargantuana's Ghost is as unexpected as it is poignant. Barb infuses his unique characters with so much beauty, pain, and hope." - J.A.W. McCarthy, author of Sometimes We're Cruel and Other Stories "With a Kong-sized beating heart at its center, Patrick Barb has created an enchanting story. His deft hand takes us on a journey by way of subway and steamships, through jungles both urban and exotic, to the realms of loss and love." - C.B. Jones, author of The Rules of the Road Proudly presented by Grey Matter Press, the independent home of multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated dark fiction titles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grey Matter Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215642887
• Artikelnr.: 65996398

Autorenporträt

PATRICK BARB is an author of weird, dark, and horrifying tales, currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of the dark urban fantasy novella Gargantuana's Ghost (Grey Matter Press), the talking animal/cosmic horror novella The Nut House (serialized in Cosmic Horror Monthly), and the collection Pre-Approved for Haunting (forthcoming from Turner Publishing, October 2023). In addition, he is an Active Member of the HWA and a Full Member of the SFWA.