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World Fantasy Award finalist

It sounds innocuous. The routine world of college teaching. Evenings on a porch with your wife. And then . . . maybe it’s an unexpected light in a dark and uninhabited house, maybe it’s a drainage tunnel that some poor kid is suddenly compelled to explore. Maybe there’s a monkey in the woods or an angel that you’ll need to fight if you want to gain tenure. Jeffrey Ford's stunning new collection Big Dark Hole is about those big, dark holes that we find ourselves once in a while and maybe, too, the big dark holes that exist inside of us.

ISBN-13: 9781618731845

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Small Beer Press

Publication Date: 07-06-2021

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

Jeffrey Ford was born on Long Island in New York State in 1955 and grew up in the town of West Islip. He studied fiction writing with John Gardner at S.U.N.Y Binghamton. He’s been a college English teacher of writing and literature for thirty years. He is the author of nine novels including The Girl in the Glass and five short story collections, including A Natural History of Hell. He has received multiple World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards as well as the Nebula and Edgar awards among others. He lives with his wife Lynn in a century old farm house in a land of slow clouds and endless fields.

Table of Contents

The Thousand Eyes 1

Hibbler's Minions 15

Monster Eight 35

Inn of the Dreaming Dog 43

Monkey in the Woods 55

The Match 65

From the Balcony of the Idawolf Arms 79

Sisyphus in Elysium 89

The Jeweled Wren 101

Not Without Mercy 119

The Bookcase Expedition 131

The Winter Wraith 143

Big Dark Hole 155

Thanksgiving 167

Five-Pointed Spell 179