This is it! Here, now! One of my dreams
realized: My debut fiction collection has just been released!!!! Published
through Cemetery Dance Publications
(paperback through Harper Day), July, 2018. THAT WHICH GROWS WILD: 16 TALES
OF DARK FICTION
I’ve been publishing fiction since February, 2011 (abt. 7-1/2 years) as
individual stories in magazines and anthologies. Since then I’ve written 86
short stories, most of them having published (some forthcoming, some
languishing in the trunk), and many published more than once. During that time
I always wondered what it would be like to collect some of the best and package
them into a book, if it would be worth it, if anyone would want it… Now I know.
I feel like it’s something of a legacy to be able to point to this and say, “This
is me, this is what I’ve done.” Though, of course, I hope to build off this and
only improve over many more books to come!!
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What this book is:
What this book is:
THAT WHICH GROWS WILD collects
sixteen dark and masterful short fiction stories by award-winning author Eric J. Guignard. Equal parts of
whimsy and weird, horror and heartbreak, this debut collection traverses the
darker side of the fantastic through vibrant and harrowing tales that encounter
monsters and regrets, hope and atonement, and the oddly changing reflection
that turns back at you in the mirror.
Discover why, after only several years, Eric J. Guignard has developed an
ardent following and earned praise by masters of the craft such as Ramsey Campbell (“Guignard gives
voice to paranoid vision that’s all too believable.”) and Rick Hautala (“No other
young horror author is better, I think, than Eric J. Guignard.”) by stories
such as these:
• In “A Case Study in Natural Selection and How It Applies to Love,” a teen
learns about himself while contemplating the theory of Natural Selection as the
world around slowly dies from rising temperature and increasing cases of
spontaneous combustion.
• In “Dreams of a Little Suicide,” a down-on-his-luck dwarven man unexpectedly
finds his dreams and love in Hollywood as a munchkin for filming of The Wizard
of Oz, but soon those dreams begin to darken.
• In “The Inveterate Establishment of Daddano & Co.,” an aged undertaker
tells the true story behind Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, and of the grime
that accumulates beneath our floors.
• In “A Journey of Great Waves,” a Japanese girl encounters, years later, the
ocean-borne debris of her tsunami-ravaged homeland, and the ghosts that come
with it.
• In “The House of the Rising Sun, Forever,” a tragic voice gives dire warning
against the cycle of opium addiction from which, even after death, there is no
escape.
• In “Last Days of the Gunslinger, John Amos,” a gunfighter keeps a decimated
town’s surviving children safe on a mountaintop from the incursion of ferocious
creatures… until a flash flood strikes, and their one chance may be to sail
away on it.
... and ten other unforgettable tales. Explore within, and discover a wild
range upon which grows the dark, the strange, and the profound.
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ADVANCE PRAISE:
ADVANCE PRAISE:
“I feel privileged to have read That Which Grows Wild by Eric J. Guignard. The
defining new voice of horror has arrived, and I stand in awe.” — Nancy Holder, NYT bestselling author,
Wicked
“Eric J. Guignard crafts storytelling into a timeless masterpiece: That Which
Grows Wild: 16 Tales of Dark Fiction is a brilliant collection of haunting
stories that will captivate readers that relish dark fiction.” — Fanbase Press
“A good story evolves, develops, grows into an adventurous journey that the
reader can become absorbed in and think about long after the last page is
turned. And that’s just what the book That Which Grows Wild: 16 Tales of Dark
Fiction by Bram Stoker Award-winner Eric J. Guignard does for the reader.” — Amazing Stories
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LASTLY, thank you SO VERY MUCH to editor Norman
Prentiss for believing in this, and bringing it to Cemetery Dance for
publication. Thank you to Lynne
Hansen for the cover artwork. Thank you to Brian James Freeman and Richard
Chizmar and Cemetery Dance for
publishing this, and Thank you to all the first editors to accept these stories
for their initial publications. And, of course, thank you dearly to each and
every supporter.
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Here are Links!:
The paperback and ebook are different publishers and haven’t linked together
yet on Amazon… I’m told that happens automatically in the future (?). But here
are its links:
Amazon/
PAPERBACK: https://www.amazon.com/That-Which-Grows-Wild-Fiction/dp/1949491005/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532190483&sr=1-2&keywords=That+Which+Grows+Wild
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40725558
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/that-which-grows-wild-eric-j-guignard/1128996677?ean=2940162056676
Personal Web Promo Page: http://ericjguignard.com/that_which_grows_wild.html
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