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Author Padgett, Jon, author.

Title The secret of ventriloquism : a collection of short stories / Jon Padgett.

Publisher East Brunswick, New Jersey : Dunhams Manor Press, [2016]

ISBN 9780692799642 (paperback)
0692799648 (paperback)



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Description 199 pages ; 23 cm
Summary With themes reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, and Bruno Schulz, but with a strikingly unique vision, Padgett's work explores the mystery of human suffering, the agony of personal existence, and the ghastly means by which someone might achieve salvation from both. A bullied child seeks vengeance within a bed's hollow box spring. A lucid dreamer is haunted by an impossible house. A dummy reveals its own anatomy in 20 simple steps. A stuttering librarian holds the key to a mill town's unspeakable secrets. A commuter's worldview is shattered by two words printed on a cardboard sign. An aspiring ventriloquist spends a little too much time looking at himself in a mirror. And a presence speaks through them all.
Subject(S) Horror fiction.
Short stories.
ISBN 9780692799642 (paperback)
0692799648 (paperback)