e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
More Content
More by this author
Padgett, Jon.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Padgett, Jon.
by title:
The secret of ventri...
by call number:
FICTION PAD
Search the Web
Padgett, Jon.
MARC Display
The secret of ventriloquism /
Jon
Padgett
.
by
Padgett
,
Jon
.
Dunhams Manor Press, c2016.
Call #:
FICTION PAD
ISBN:
9780692799642 (trade pbk.)
Description:
199 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Short stories.
Includes an introduction by Matt Cardin.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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.
Genre:
Short stories.
Horror fiction.
Other authors:
Cardin, Matt.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Cole Harbour Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION PAD
Adult Trade Paperback Books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.