Swift to Chase

Laird Barron’s fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan wilderness, far-future dystopias, and giallo-fueled nightmare vistas.

All hell breaks loose in a massive apartment complex when a modern day Jack the Ripper strikes under cover of a blizzard; a woman, famous for surviving a massacre, hits the road to flee the limelight and finds her misadventures have only begun; while tracking a missing B-movie actor, a team of man hunters crashes in the Yukon Delta and soon realize the Arctic is another name for hell; an atomic-powered cyborg war dog loyally assists his master in the overthrow of a far-future dystopian empire; following an occult initiation ritual, a man is stalked by a psychopathic sorority girl and her team of horrifically disfigured henchmen; a rich lunatic invites several high school classmates to his mansion for a night of sex, drugs, and CIA-funded black ops experiments; and other glimpses into occulted realities a razor’s slice beyond our own.

Cea de-a patra colectie a lui Laird Barron reuneste o duzina de povesti situate pe fundalul salbaticiei din Alaska, distopii viitorului indepartat si privelisti de cosmar alimentate de giallo. viscol; o femeie, renumita pentru supravietuirea unui masacru, da drumul sa fuga din lumina reflectoarelor si constata ca nenorocirile ei au inceput doar; in timp ce urmarea un actor din filmul B disparut, o echipa de vanatori de barbati se prabuseste in Delta Yukon si in curand isi dau seama ca Arctica este un alt nume pentru iad; un caine de razboi ciborg cu putere atomica isi asista loial stapanul in rasturnarea unui viitor distopian imperiu; in urma unui ritual de initiere oculta, un barbat este urmarit de o fata de sorocitate psihopatica si de echipa ei de barbati oribil defigurati; un nebun bogat invita mai multi colegi de liceu la conacul sau pentru o noapte de sex, droguri si experimente de operatiuni negre finantate de CIA; si alte priviri in realitatile oculte, o felie de ras dincolo de a noastra.