The Night Doctor

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Steve Rasnic Tem (b. 1950) is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror. His previous novels include Excavation, The Book of Days, and, with Melanie Tem, Daughters and The Man On The Ceiling. E is a past winner of the World Fantasy, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, & Bram Stoker awards. He has also been a finalist for the Philip K. Ick, Shirley Jackson, and Theodore Sturgeon awards.

His previous novels include Excavation, The Book of Days, and, with Melanie Tem, Daughters and The Man On The Ceiling. His story collections include City Fishing, The Far Side of the Lake, and In Concert (with Melanie Tem). 1950) is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror. He is a past winner of the World Fantasy, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, & Bram Stoker awards. Dick, Shirley Jackson, and Theodore Sturgeon awards.

Author James Sallis has written this about the short stories of Steve Rasnic Tem: “Never programmatic or reductive, Tem's stories are as dense with meaning as they are with finely wrought language and emotion They're in the best sense about things.” Dan Simmons has called him “One of the finest and most productive writers of imaginative literature in North America.” This new collection of 25 stories (including two appearing here for the first time) collects the best of his dark fiction published since his landmark Centipede tome Out of the Dark: A Storybook of Horrors number have appeared in various Year's Best volumes.

All represent the high quality of Tem's prose and the wide range of his approaches to the horror genre n The Night Doctor And Other Tales, you will encounter the most haunting figures ever to cross Tem's imagination: a man obsessed with his own breath and the breathing he hears that is not his own; a husband waiting for his wife as new bodies appear at the bottom of his yard; a weekend fisherman and the unseen man sharing his fishing hut; a loyal husband dealing with the latest changes in his wife's physical appearance; a strange widower in his house by the sea; a devoted mother trying to protect her son from the nightmares of the past; a son returning to a dreaded summer vacation spot; a grandfather protecting his grandchildren from a legacy of dark transformations; and, in the title story, an elderly man awaits the visit of a mysterious family physician Steve Rasnic Tem is a past winner of the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards.

Is most recent collections are The Harvest Child and Other Fantasies (Crossroads) and Everything Is Fine Now (Omnium Gatherum) He lives in Colorado ith 336 pages of new material, ribbon marker, handsome signature page, and attractive dustjacket by artist Gary Laib, this is a phenomenal collection by one of horror's most distinctive voices. edition information.

Edition Details
  • Signed by Steve Rasnic Tem and Gary Laib.
  • Bound in full black cloth.
  • Gorgeous dustjacket art by Gary Laib.
  • Patterned endpapers.
  • Head and tail bands.
Contents:
  • Breathing
  • Apartment B
  • Red Rabbit
  • The Hanged Man
  • The Fishing Hut
  • A Sudden Event
  • Paula Breaks
  • Lost in the Garden of Earthly Delights
  • Blattidae Wine
  • Half-Light
  • Mister Ainsley
  • The Long Fade Into Evening
  • Domestic Magic
  • The Secret Laws of the Universe
  • The Man in the Rose Bushes
  • The Night Doctor
  • The Enemy Within
  • Stick Men
  • Too Many Ghosts
  • When You're Not Looking
  • Between the Pilings
  • The Erased
  • The Wake
  • The Weight Lost
  • The Monster Makers
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