Bøker av Roger Leatherwood

An escape from a chain gang in the deserts of California led by a hardened criminal nicknamed "Flies" leads to a forgotten government research base with a nuclear secret 20 years old. A convict changes his identity and returns to his hometown, hiding as an usher in a deteriorating movie palace. But he's been here - 20 years before - and what's hidden in his history, and lurking backstage, awakens a silent horror as patient and possessive as the decay overtaking the haunted building. A crime novel reconfigured as gothic chamber piece, "Flies" slides through a narrative that slowly destabilizes as plot turns and horror elements poke at and unseal the rules of genre.

Twelve stories collected in one volume, tales that explore the low drama of unrequited love and the burning anguish of dreams just out reach; pasts that won't leave the present uninfected and the lure of agency in sexual attraction. The consequences of the daily negotiations with ourselves. Stories that appeared in Skive Magazine, Written On Skin anthology, Oysters & Chocolate, KY Story, Wapshot's Erotique and elsewhere. Includes "On Or Around Lauren," originally available in a limited deluxe edition.

In his house at R'lyeth, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. But from the unnamed places his tentacled minions still seep and emerge, feeding on our fears and on our women. Three stories, "The Whispers From Our Archeological Remains," "R'lyeth A Carpet Upon The Earth" and "The Lackawanna Sacrifice" document the damage.