Voice of the Stranger - by Eric Schaller (Paperback)

About the Book

Fourteen unsettling, speculative shorts that draw on folk and fairy tales. Weird fiction author Schaller includes story notes.

Book Synopsis

Fourteen unsettling and eerie speculative shorts that draw on the richness of folk and fairy tales. Genies, one-eyed sheep, and automatons, among other oddities, populate these pages and so populate the reader's imagination. Weird fiction author Schaller includes a section of story notes that reveals his inspiration for each tale.

Review Quotes

"Eric Schaller's new story collection, Voice of a Stranger, is a wondrous curio cabinet of tales. His work as an author, illustrator of weird stories, and scientist draws a myriad of influences together and blends all the speculative genres with a smooth, descriptive style. The pacing is perfect from story to story, as the strange creeps, filters, leaps into these 14 fabulist fictions." - Jeffrey Ford, author of Big Dark Hole

"Be careful: reading Eric Schaller's collection opens a door to the fairy tale realm of the mythically eerie and meaningful...one that you may not find as easy to close." - Will Ludwigsen, author of Acres of Perhaps

"These unsettling fairy tales will linger in readers' minds." - Publishers Weekly

"This gruesome collection of short stories explores the perils and pleasures of encounters with the unknown." - Kirkus Reviews