2003
First Published
4.25
Average Rating
80
Number of Pages
As in Poppy Z. Brite's The Seed of Lost Souls, and David Morrell's the Unpublished Prologues, this huge (nearly 30,000 words!) limited edition (only 500 copies!) chapbook contains rare glimpses into CaitlÌn R. Kiernan's new novel, Threshold. Inside you'll find alternate openings, deleted chapters, nonfiction related to the novel, and short stories about the same characters, most of it unpublished. the Writing of Threshold 1. Author's Foreword—An essay on the writing of the book; 2. Original Unused Prologue — "... the dead and the moonstruck..."; 3. Second Unused Prologue—untitled; 4. Original Chapter 4 — "Dane" (completely excised from final ms.); 5. Excerpt from Original Chapter 1 — untitled; 6. Related Short Stories — "The Well of Stars and Shadow" — A prequel, with Dancy as a small child in the Florida swamps (previously published only online) and "In The Water Works (Birmingham, Alabama 1888)" — Essentially, a pro-prologue to Threshold, in which Chance Matthews' great-grandfather discovers the thing under the mountain; and 7. Author's Afterword—An essay on the geology and paleontology of the area where Threshold is set—Birmingham and Red Mountain.
Avg Rating
4.25
Number of Ratings
40
5 STARS
48%
4 STARS
38%
3 STARS
10%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Author · 46 books
Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan is an Irish-born American published paleontologist and author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including ten novels, series of comic books, and more than two hundred and fifty published short stories, novellas, and vignettes.
