Nocturnal Emissions
2010
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4.00
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198
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Supernatural Black Dogs, UFO's, a vampire shark, parasite-infested children, and a foul-mouthed marionette from another dimension. These are just some of the dark delights to be found in the collection Nocturnal Emissions, from Jeffrey Thomas—the fertile imagination behind the Punktown and Letters From Hades series, and finalist for the Bram Stoker and John W. Campbell awards. Thomas demonstrates the wide range of his ability in these short stories, novellas and poems, which Godhead Dying Downwards—Thomas' acclaimed novella, in which a 19th Century priest seeks to solve ghostly mysteries in the British countryside. The Night Swimmers—in which two brothers investigate UFO sightings in a New England forest. The Possessed—a New Weird style science fiction/horror novella in which three explorers utilize a strange method of traveling to a far world. Nocturnal Emissions—a novella (or collection of mini-stories, if you'd rather) about imbalance, love, TV, a giant floating eye, and other enigmas—one chapter of which features the pop star Walter Egan (Magnet and Steel) as its protagonist.
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Author
Jeffrey Thomas
Author · 40 books
Jeffrey Thomas is an American author of fantastical fiction, the creator of the acclaimed milieu Punktown. Books in the Punktown universe include the short story collections PUNKTOWN, VOICES FROM PUNKTOWN, PUNKTOWN: SHADES OF GREY (with his brother, Scott Thomas), and GHOSTS OF PUNKTOWN. Novels in that setting include DEADSTOCK, BLUE WAR, MONSTROCITY, HEALTH AGENT, EVERYBODY SCREAM!, and RED CELLS. Thomas' other short story collections include WORSHIP THE NIGHT, THIRTEEN SPECIMENS, NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS, DOOMSDAYS, TERROR INCOGNITA, UNHOLY DIMENSIONS, AAAIIIEEE!!!, HONEY IS SWEETER THAN BLOOD, and ENCOUNTERS WITH ENOCH COFFIN (with W. H. Pugmire). His other novels include LETTERS FROM HADES, THE FALL OF HADES, BEAUTIFUL HELL, BONELAND, BEYOND THE DOOR, THOUGHT FORMS, SUBJECT 11, LOST IN DARKNESS, THE SEA OF FLESH AND ASH (with his brother, Scott Thomas), BLOOD SOCIETY, and A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: THE DREAM DEALERS. Thomas lives in Massachusetts.
