Release Day for: A GRAVESIDE GALLERY: TALES OF GHOSTS AND DARK MATTERS

 New release today: My second fiction collection!!

A GRAVESIDE GALLERY: TALES OF GHOSTS AND DARK MATTERS

A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts and Dark Matters includes nineteen strange and masterful short fiction stories in this second collection by award-winning author Eric J. Guignard. From hauntings and oblivion to monsters, murder, and anthropomorphism, A Graveside Gallery explores the literary odd and macabre that reside in the vast shadows of our existence.

Discover why Eric J. Guignard’s beautifully-voiced and disquieting work has been praised by sites such as Library Journal (“Guignard captures the depth of emotion underlying fictional terrors”) and Publishers Weekly (“high-concept and brilliant”) as well as the NY Times, CNBC News, Booklist, and more, for stories such as these:

• In “A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds,” a gay Hispanic teen in 1950s Los Angeles, mourning the loss of a friend, has a chance to make amends during Day of the Dead.
• In “Incident at the Red Hawk Road Stop,” the owner of a roadside trading post has a deadly secret, but so too does the customer he kills.
• In “Penny’s Diner,” a long haul trucker, coming home after an accident, stops at a curious diner.
• In “The Ascending Lights of Yu Lan,” an embittered sailor in 1917’s San Francisco Wharf encounters an immigrant from China who offers peace from ghosts.
• In “Bummin’ to the Beat of the Road,” a Beat-era youth leaves home to travel the land, only to find madness, murder, and the teeth of a new generation.
• In “Perchance to Dream in Voices of a Fiend: A Fanciful Epilogue to Frankenstein,” an intimate epilogue is suggested to the famous novel Frankenstein, offering a more hopeful closure to characters’ lives.

Those and thirteen other tales explore the fearful and nebulous boundaries of reality. Visit A Graveside Gallery by Eric J. Guignard and behold that which is captivating, startling, and darkly enriching.

More here: https://ericjguignard.com/a_graveside_gallery.html

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Table of Contents:

• Penny’s Diner
• A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds
• If I Drive Before I Wake
• Bummin’ to the Beat of the Road
• The Telephone Game
• The Tale of Samuel Whiskers Continued; or, A London Digression
• Drink, Drink From the Fountain of Death
• Ritual Sacrifice to the Great God of Skates
• The Moon Over Andersonville
• A Stroke of Death
• The Shimmer of Trees
• Ommetaphobia
• The Ascending Lights of Yu Lan
• Two Hearts Make a Half; or, Ghosts of a Rodeo Clown
• Perchance to Dream in Voices of a Fiend: A Fanciful Epilogue to Frankenstein
• Incident at the Red Hawk Road Stop
• O Shades, My Woe
• Carmine Lips and a Fade into Oblivion
• The First Order of Whaleyville’s Divine Basilisk Handlers

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Title: A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts and Dark Matters
Author: Eric J. Guignard
Price: $34.95 hardback; $19.99 trade paperback; $4.99 ebook
Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications (Forest Hill, MD)
Format: Available in Hardback, Trade Paperback and Electronic Media
Number of pages: 264 pgs at 6” x 9” trim (80,500 words)
13-digit ISBN (hardback with dust jacket): 978-1-949491-61-6
13-digit ISBN (paperback): 978-1-964780-16-0
13-digit ISBN (e-book): 978-1-964780-17-7
ASIN (ebook): B0DVJ2XDXH
Library of Congress Control Number: 2024952840
Date of publication: April 22, 2025
Available for sale here: https://www.amazon.com/Graveside-Gallery-Tales-Ghosts-Matters/dp/1949491617/

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