Tortoise Books Paperback English
The Dark Will End The Dark
Tenth Anniversary Edition
By Darrin Doyle
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A group of tugboat passengers grapples with a disturbing loss. A record-holding hiccuper confronts his conditionand a troubling secret. A wife wonders what to do when her husbands head stops workingbut his body stays alive. A man struggles with the memory of the time he saw his friend swallowed whole by a neighborhood girl with supernatural powers. In this classic set of Midwestern Gothic stories by Darrin Doyle, we see the strange hold hands with the familiarand seem all the more strange as a result. A set of tall tales (and medium-height ones) told with Nabokovian prose, this stunning and visceral collection by the author of The Beast in Aisle 34 will linger long after the last page. Originally published in 2015, this revised tenth anniversary edition features a new introduction by American Mythology author Giano Cromley.
A group of tugboat passengers grapples with a disturbing loss. A record-holding hiccuper confronts his conditionand a troubling secret. A wife wonders what to do when her husbands head stops workingbut his body stays alive. A man struggles with the memory of the time he saw his friend swallowed whole by a neighborhood girl with supernatural powers.
In this classic set of Midwestern Gothic stories by Darrin Doyle, we see the strange hold hands with the familiarand seem all the more strange as a result. A set of tall tales (and medium-height ones) told with Nabokovian prose, this stunning and visceral collection by the author of The Beast in Aisle 34 will linger long after the last page.
Originally published in 2015, this revised tenth anniversary edition features a new introduction by American Mythology author Giano Cromley.