Thirteen Conjurations

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In this third short story collection, following up on Midnight Call (2008) and Tempting Providence (2010), Jonathan Thomas continues to demonstrate the skill and emotive power that have made him a dynamic new voice in contemporary weird fiction. This volume opens with a quartet of tales elaborating upon Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, including "Mobymart After Midnight" (a delightful skewering of Walmart culture) and "King of Cat Swamp, " an ingenious riff on "The Call of Cthulhu." Other stories treat a variety of weird themes: "Way Up When, " about a man who has remarkable precognitive powers, "The Comeuppance Hour, " in which the makers of a skeptical TV show about occult phenomena find more than they bargain for, and "A Retouch in Camonica, " about strange happenings in an Italian archaeological site. The volume concludes with a "Swedish-American Triptych, " in which various protagonists encounter the bizarre in a far Baltic land. Each tale is crafted meticulously and enlivened by a wit and mordant satire that renders them unique in recent weird writing."Jonathan Thomas pushes us toward . . . fresh hells, as in his pages we recognize the still startling twenty-first-century disjunction between our own fragmentary human skull and our own residual ape-like jaw."-From Barton L. St. Armand's Foreword"Jonathan Thomas has an enviably impressive range-from the gentle to the gruesome, from science fiction through fantasy to the spectral and horrific-but his wit is reliable, and so is the clarity of his eye, and the precision of his prose. He's an asset to all his fields."-Ramsey Campbell