A man hiding under an assumed identity loses his grip on reality when the false life he’s created becomes more real than his own.
A woman discovers that the construction project tearing her neighborhood apart is really a bridge between this world and another.
When a man tries to save his son from a brutal and horrifying rite of passage, he discovers that some things are beyond his control.
A woman discovers that the construction project tearing her neighborhood apart is really a bridge between this world and another.
When a man tries to save his son from a brutal and horrifying rite of passage, he discovers that some things are beyond his control.
"The darkness in Surface’s characters arises from incomplete and even repressed knowledge, knowledge of those spaces of the self and the world which are troubling, disturbing. Darkness within is in part a response to darkness without, But this only reveals how much more darkness lies beyond the end of the story. Strange stories, yes, and dark, too. Stories whose fine prose and sympathetically drawn characters give them an emotional heft and resonance not always found among this stripe of fiction. Stories that follow you."
– John Langan, The Strange Darkness of David Surface
– John Langan, The Strange Darkness of David Surface
These Things That Walk Behind Me from Lethe Press features fourteen stories from David Surface previously published in venues including Best Horror of the Year, Nightscript, and Supernatural Tales, along with five new previously unpublished stories. Foreword by John Langan.
Release date: October 1, 2024. Now available for preorder here.
Release date: October 1, 2024. Now available for preorder here.