All books using the keywords: Benjamin Roque

Twenty four poems suitable to be read by a campfire and one short story evoke the horrors of the 21st century in the atmosphere of the 19th. Here we encounter unreliable narrators, ghost towns, drunken existentialism, symphonies trapped in glass jars, haunted soldiers, midnight mirages, ventriloquist voices -- both hallucinations parading as life, and life itself parading as hallucinations. From the author of Living Paint: Strange Stories.

The author presents himself as a nameless character in a painting brought to life when a strange witching hour descends over the gallery. Told from the point of view of each of his fellow paintings, these nineteen stories blend life with the strange, the supernatural, and the unsettling—two poems are included for good measure. In these stories, the wrong interpretation of an eccentric’s will could have disastrous results; A dream collector appears with a brace and drill bit to obtain his keep; A pianist becomes suspicious of his hands, and that the music has intentions of its own; A hotel takes on the characteristics of both its living and dying occupants… All these and more startling ta ...

"Alternately chilling, philosophical, and sentimental..." -IndieReader 21 hauntings and possibilities from the imagination of Benjamin Roque (Living Paint, Calliope Steam). "The moment she spoke I knew she was a tourist, but I ask for directions anyway... I disappear in the door... this must be the place... " Where a condemned man takes part in an experiment which will determine the existence of the human soul; where a group of mountaineers climb higher than the mountain; where a failed actor suspects his girlfriend is a collection of stolen characteristics; where a boy is determined to make winter last for a sick classmate; where a dying soldier's last words are stolen by the w ...