In the brutal zero-sum game of the new future, every meal is a murder, and every act of love is a declaration of genocidal war. To survive it, you will have to make alliances with the sleeping demons in your blood; learn to wear new names and faces, and shed your soul; feed your inner child to the machine, before it eats you alive; build and defend your own heaven; and become one of the sacred, secret tools with which nature reinvents itself. To win this game, you will have to change into everything that you are not. To play you need only open this book and arm yourself with... Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
► This is high-end psychological surrealist horror meets bottom-feeding low-life crime in a techno-thrilling world full of Lovecraft and magic... ◄ John SKipp
► Cody Goodfellow's work is '80s vintage horror with contemporary edge. This stuff is Lovecraft on acid. ◄ Laird Barron
CONTENTS
Introduction by John Skipp: Heavy Lifting, for the Lunatic Bastard in You!
1. Baby Teeth
2. El Santero
3. A Drop of Ruby
4. Champagne Room
5. Feast of the Ixiptla
6. Hinterland
7. The Good News About Good
8. Magna Mater
9. His Station & 4 Aces
10. Burning Names
11. Atwater
12. Conscientious Objector
13. In His Wake
14. Loosers. Weepers
15. Batteries
Afterword by Jeremy Robert Johnson: What You Need to Know
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Cover art by Alan M. Clark