Secret Hours [Paperback]

Michael (Author), Cisco (Author), Harry O. Morris (Illustrator), Jason C. Eckhardt (Illustrator), Thomas Brown (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 2007

134 pp. Introduction by Robert M. Price. 14 short stories, some horrific, some fantastic, some uncategorizeable, but all haunting and unsettling. Some stories include a brief introduction by the author. The collection consists of several Lovecraftian tales: The Chaos Into Time / The Firebrands of Torment / I Will Teach You / The Water Nymphs / What He Chanced To Mould In Play / Translation (which also tips the hat to Arthur Machen and William S. Burroughs); also the remainder of the tales are evocative of Cisco' s own unique haunting style: Two Fragments / The Depredations of Mur / Dr. Bondi's Methods / For No Eyes / He Will Be There (a tribute to THE KING IN YELLOW by Robert W. Chambers, with a nod to Ramsey Campbell) / The Night of the Nights / The Death of Edgar Allan Poe / Ice Age Of Dreams (with varying influences of T.E.D. Klein and Arthur Machen, and dedicated to Thomas Ligotti). Color cover, endpapers and several interior illustrations by Harry O. Morris, and an interior illustration by Jason C. Eckhardt and by Thomas Brown.

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About the Author

Michael Cisco is the author of THE DIVINITY STUDENT, THE TYRANT, and THE SAN VENEFICIO CANON. In 1999, his debut work received the International Horror Writer's Guild Award for Best First Novel.

Product Details

• Paperback: 134 pages
• Publisher: Mythos Books LLC; 1st edition (February 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978991109
• ISBN-13: 978-0978991104
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,455,708 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hallucinatory translations of genius?, November 19, 2008

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J. S. Pulver "A reader in Upstate, NY" (Clifton Park, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secret Hours (Paperback)

Indeed they are.

There are lands and textures and frequencies few dare explore, fewer still are the wordsmiths, their fingers laced with magic and whorls ornamented in terrible and rich dreams, who return from chaos with such beguiling tales to tell. Cisco is one of the few. The music that issues from the 14 doors in this volume of bar-raising short works is among the finest in contemporary weird literature. Unsettling or haunting, these gifts of imagination transport the reader to districts in close proximity to the master of the modern weird tale, Thomas Ligotti.

This exceptional collection belongs on the shelf of every lover of fantastic literature.

4 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WORTH THE WAIT, March 23, 2007

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david goodman - See all my reviews

This review is from: Secret Hours (Paperback)

I have been waiting for this printed text for at least 5 torpid years. I am glad to still be in acceptable enough physical health at this point in order to acknowledge Cisco with 5 amazon stars.