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The secret of ventriloquism / Jon Padgett.

by Padgett, Jon.

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Dunhams Manor Press, c2016.

9780692799642 (trade pbk.)

199 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes an introduction by Matt Cardin.

The Mindfulness of Horror Practice -- Murmurs of a Voice Foreknown -- The Indoor Swamp -- Origami Dreams -- 20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism -- Infusorium -- Organ Void -- The Secret of Ventriloquism -- Escape to Thin Mountain.

"With themes reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, and Bruno Schulz, but with a strikingly unique vision, Padgett’s work explores the mystery of human suffering, the agony of personal existence, and the ghastly means by which someone might achieve salvation from both. A bullied child who seeks vengeance within a bed’s hollow box spring; a lucid dreamer haunted by an impossible house; a dummy that reveals its own anatomy in 20 simple steps; a stuttering librarian who holds the key to a mill town's unspeakable secrets; a commuter whose worldview is shattered by two words printed on a cardboard sign; an aspiring ventriloquist who spends a little too much time looking at himself in a mirror. And the presence that speaks through them all."--Publisher.

Horror fiction.

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