THERE ARE MANY DENOMINATIONS OF HORROR
As Jeffrey Thomas says in his introduction to Worship The Night, there is "a kind of loose theme at work in these stories -- the notion of deities, hereafters, or otherwheres beyond the mortal plane."
"The Lost Family" takes place in the Hell of Thomas' cult novel Letters From Hades, while "Counterclockwise" (set in his acclaimed milieu of Punktown) offers a glimpse into an alien belief system. "The Holy Bowl" invokes that tastiest of deities, the Flying Spaghetti Monster. "In Limbo" (selected for Volume 1 of The Year's Best Weird Fiction) finds a man poised at the dismal way station between damnation and salvation. The protagonist of "About The Author" believes she has summoned tormenting entities from the netherworld. "The Strange Case of Crazy Joe Gallo" and "Children of The Dragon" pay homage to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Finally, the main characters of the novella "The Sea of Flesh" face evil both in our world and within a mystical alternate realm.
You may be a doubting Thomas, but soon you will be a believer...in horror.
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Review
"...ingenious and impeccably written.." --Thomas Ligotti
"Jeffrey Thomas has done something wonderful." --China Mieville
"Jeffrey Thomas' imagination is as twisted as it is relentless." --F. Paul Wilson
About the Author
Jeffrey Thomas is the author of such novels as Deadstock (finalist for the John Campbell award), Blue War, Monstrocity (finalist for the Bram Stoker Award), Letters From Hades, The Fall of Hades, and A Nightmare on Elm street: The Dream Dealers, and such short story collections as Punktown, Nocturnal Emissions, Voices from Hades, Voices From Punktown, Unholy Dimensions and (with W. H. Pugmire) Enounters With Enoch Coffin. A number of his books have been translated into German, Russian, Greek, Polish and Taiwanese editions. His stories have appeared in the anthologies The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, The Year's Best Horror Stories, Leviathan 3, The Thakery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & discredited Diseases, and The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Thomas lives in Massachusetts. **