Black Pockets: And Other Dark Thoughts

By: George Zebrowski

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Synopsis: In this masterful collection of horror stories, George Zebrowski divides these nineteen tales into personal, political, and metaphysical terrors—stories to scare you individually, stories to frighten you as a social animal, and stories that should terrify the entire human race. In &“I Walked with Fidel,&” a young man encounters a once politically powerful zombie; &“Jumper&” focuses on a young woman with a dark and troubled past, while in &“The Coming of Christ the Joker,&” the lighthearted banter of a celebrity TV talk show becomes something far more serious. &“A Piano Full of Dead Spiders&” is an eerie story of genius, its demands, and its delusions; in &“Passing Nights,&” the truth behind a recurring nightmare is revealed; &“The Soft Terrible Music&” depicts a man who must hide his past even from himself. And in the title story, the novella &“Black Pockets,&” Zebrowski asks: What happens to a man when his desire for revenge becomes all-consuming? With an introduction by Howard Waldrop and an afterword by the author, George Zebrowski reveals himself in Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts as a writer who can play on our more disturbing emotions even as he impels us to deeper thoughts.