{"product_id":"the-dreamer-in-fire-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"The Dreamer in Fire and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSam Gafford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a decade or more, Sam Gafford has been quietly developing a reputation as a writer willing and able to fuse supernatural horror with psychological suspense, resulting in tales of grim power and penetrating insight into aberrant states of mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH. P. Lovecraft is the focus of many of the stories in this book, Gafford's first collection of short stories. With rare poignancy and delicacy, Gafford puts the figure of Lovecraft himself--either real or imagined--on stage in such stories as \"Passing Spirits,\" where the Providence writer's terminal cancer is addressed; \"'The Dreamer in Fire, '\" where a mysterious writer very much in the Lovecraft mold is the focus of a pseudo-scholarly analysis; \"Casting Fractals,\" in which Lovecraft's work serves as an uncannily accurate prophecy of the cataclysmic events that followed after his death; and \"Weltschermz,\" where a character takes Lovecraft's dark vision of the world a bit too seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther stories show the diversity of Gafford's inspirations. \"The Adventure of the Prometheus Calculation\" is a new Sherlock Holmes tale--one that does not end well for that famous detective. In \"'How Does That Make You Feel?'\" a patient undergoing psychiatric analysis imagines himself a pulp superhero from the 1940s--but is it only his imagination? And \"The Land of Lonesomeness\" evokes the final days of William Hope Hodgson on the bloody fields of Flanders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51799566909728,"sku":"9781614981954","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/449f2dbd80865302abd7615d237f1294.webp?v=1780817252","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-dreamer-in-fire-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}