"A Collapse of Horses" is one of four Evenson titles that Minneapolis-based Coffee House Press will publish this year (the other three are reissues of the prizewinning novels he started publishing in the '90s). They include killer storms, ghostly visitors, excruciating surgeries, terrifying hallucinations, shootings, stabbings, head injuries and absolutely appalling meals.Įvenson is a writer with an uncommonly dark vision, and in 2016 he figures to find his biggest audience yet. These are words of caution that could appear in any of the tales in "A Collapse of Horses." "Every time you think you have the world figured, trust me," he says, "that's just when the world's got you figured and is about to spring and break your back." Mortally injured but apparently unable to die, the man assumes a spectral state and delivers an existentialist warning to a freaked-out friend. In "Black Bark," the first entry in this pleasingly weird collection of short fiction, Brian Evenson tells a creepy story about an unfortunate horseman.
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