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Tell Me When I Disappear
About the Book:
From Glen Hirshberg, Shirley Jackson- and International Horror Guild Award-winning author of Infinity Dreams and the Motherless Children trilogy, comes a collection suffused with creeping dread about what’s being lost. And what that will cost. And what just might be circling back for us:
In a decaying northern California fishing town, the last locals attempt to save a vengeful widow from herself as yet another storm bears down. But this storm is bringing something worse than waves or wind…
In the Tasmanian wilderness, two travel guides and former lovers discover that wildness, and memories of wildness, still have teeth…
Along the southern coast of Rhode Island, a woman in search of an old friend discovers just how frayed the threads that unite the states have become…
In the meth-haunted wastelands north of Los Angeles, a mother camps on the driveway of a drug kingpin’s dilapidated mansion. She’s there to save her estranged daughter. But older dangers are bubbling out of the drought-raved Earth beneath her feet…
Atmospheric, elegiac, and—oh, yes—scary, here are seven tales about people confronting what people have wrought. And a few other things people had nothing to do with.
Praise for Tell Me When I Disappear
“The seven haunting stories in this new collection from Shirley Jackson Award winner Hirshberg (Infinity Dreams) all circle horrors that, though sketched obliquely, still evoke powerful chills. Though the settings are often novel—a theme park built from abandoned railroad cars (“DestinationLand”), a drug lord’s decrepit compound (“A Paradise to Live in or See”), a storm-besieged lighthouse (“Jetty Sara”)—the characters who populate them feel so real that readers will easily buy in to their feelings of terror. These dark flights of fancy impress.” — Publishers’ Weekly (starred review)
“This collection positively seethes with a sense of recent and impending loss, and the moments of terror, when they arrive, are often swift and disorienting…these stories deal closely with the emotional toll of just how dispensable human life and the natural world have become in the present.” — Library Journal
“In reading Tell Me When I Disappear: Vanishing Stories, I was astonished at Hirshberg’s ability to leave readers with a multifaceted understanding of loss embedded within spine-chilling stories. I know the goal of writing is to create stories that resonate with their readers, but I’ve never seen horror stories that were also such beautiful testimonies to the idea of loss and being lost.” — HorrorAddicts.net
“A genuine horror-story masterpiece…A momentous book that disappears, story by story, into my mind forever. And do not tell me when forever ends.” — Des Lewis Real-Time Reviews