Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

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Wildside Press LLC, 2009 - Fiction - 256 pages
  • From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings.
  • A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is initiated into a family story of monstrous deeds. A student learns frightening lessons in a surreal tutoring center. A young couple struggles to make their stand against a group of inhuman pursuers in a ravaged landscape. And, in a new story, an artist discovers a mysterious statue whose completion becomes his obsession.
 

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INTRODUCTION Elizabeth Hand
11
MR GAUNT
50
TUTORIAL
96
LAST STAND AGAINST THE PACK IN
127
LAOCÖON or THE SINGULARITY
159
STORY NOTES
241
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