Bøger af David Peak

Published by Schism Press The world has been swallowed by strangeness. A new reality-a "horror reality"-has taken hold. David Peak's The Spectacle of the Void examines the boundaries of the irreal and the beyond, exploring horror's singular ability to communicate the unknown through language and image. It is also a speculative work that gazes unflinchingly at the inevitable extinction of mankind, questioning whether or not the burden of our knowing we will someday cease to exist is a burden after all, or rather the very notion that will set us free.

"A brilliant and flayed slice of Midwest gothic. While one might find traces of Poppy Z. Brite or Michael McDowell here, The World Below is wholly its own beast. Peak laces the classic premise of feuding, cursed families with high-potency LSD, forming something fresh, potent, and filled with ache."-B.R. Yeager, author of Negative Space"Violent, noir-soaked horror infuses every page of David Peak's astonishing The World Below, coiling like a serpent around love: first and lost loves, love of family and the land, love of darkness and blood. Peak mixes the most primal of emotions like an alchemist, leaving every reader transformed."-Livia Llewellyn, author of Furnace"The World Below is an incredible page turner of a novel. The fascinating, well-rendered characters, all members of two long-feuding families, clash with pyrotechnic, psychedelic, and dynamic results. The World Below puts in mind an unholy but glorious union of William Faulkner's Light in August and Grant Morrison's The Invisibles. Peak's prose is wise, mysterious, and philosophically deep, but is always riveting. My highest recommendation. Don't miss this one!"-Jon Padgett, author of The Secret of Ventriloquism

Phantom limbs, porous realities, and strange reflections shifting in black glass. The thirteen stories included in David Peak''s decade-spanning collection explore how memory affects place and place affects memory, the traumas that haunt bodies like ghosts, and the desperation of needing to be seen and understood by others. Only in pulling back the bloody veil of this world may we be so blessed to see things as they really are-and not as we wish them to be.David Peak builds stories that are intricate structures, impossible monuments to human darkness. To read them is to feel something tap against a secret part of us, a hidden bone that refuses to be forgotten. -Nadia Bulkin, author of She Said DestroyDavid Peak writes like a black-winged emissary from the Void, and Eyes in the Dust and Other Stories is a travelogue behind the walls, beneath the surface, and through the worm-tunnels that pierce a dying world''s heart. From fever dreams and haunted houses to fissures in reality and the emptiness beyond, no one else captures the aspects of the abyss like David Peak.  -Gordon B. White, author of As Summer''s Mask Slips and Other Disruptions

Las pesadillas de Ligotti o Lovecraft se dan cita con el black metal más descarnado en esta inclasificable obra de música, surrealismo, horror cósmico, existencialismo y mucho guitarreo. Un cantante de metal adicto a las drogas asiste a la única oportunidad de salvar su carrera en franca decadencia: viajar a Ucrania a grabar un nuevo disco con una banda de culto. Sin embargo, algo mucho más oscuro que su música le espera en el viaje.David Peak es un autor estadounidense residente en Chicago. Su obra, siempre emparentada con el horror existencialista, ha aparecido en diversos medios y editoriales y le ha granjeado numerosas nominaciones a galardones de terror.

Care facility resident Peter looks back on his life and the people who've shaped it in this tale of magical realism.