Skidding Into Oblivion

Skidding Into Oblivion

Short stories

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Publisher's Synopsis

We each inhabit many worlds, often at the same time. From worlds on the inside, to the world on a cosmic scale. Worlds imposed on us, and worlds of our own making.

In time, though, all worlds will end. Bear witness:

  • After the death of their grandmother, two cousins return to their family's rural homestead to find a community rotting from the soul outward, and a secret nobody dreamed their matriarch had been keeping.

  • The survivors of the 1929 raid on H.P. Lovecraft's town of Innsmouth hold the key to an anomalous new event in the ocean, if only someone could communicate with them.

  • The ultimate snow day turns into the ultimate nightmare when it just doesn't stop.

  • An extreme metal musician compels his harshest critic to live up to the hyperbole of his trolling.

  • With the last of a generation of grotesquely selfish city fathers on his deathbed, the residents of the town they doomed exercise their right to self-determination one last time.

  • As history repeats itself and the world shivers through a volcanic winter, a group gathers around the shore of a mountain lake to once again invoke the magic that created the world's most famous monster.

  • With Skidding Into Oblivion, his fifth collection, award-winning author Brian Hodge brings together his most concentrated assortment yet of year's best picks and awards finalists, with one thing in common:

    It's the end of the world as we know it . . . and we don't feel fine at all.

    Book information

    ISBN: 9781771484787
    Publisher: ChiZine Publications
    Imprint: ChiZine Publications
    Pub date:
    Edition: Short stories
    DEWEY: 813.6
    DEWEY edition: 23
    Language: English
    Number of pages: 350
    Weight: 288g
    Height: 155mm
    Width: 229mm
    Spine width: 20mm