Horrors & Wonders
short stories & a poem
Two friends search a Georgia swamp at night for a local legend said to call forth death itself… A self-aware hoard tells the story of its creation… A boy in a secluded village is visited by a traveler with a strange bottle… A teacher stumbles upon an alien monstrosity in an abandoned locker room… After his wife leaves him, a man discovers he has a unique power tied to his dreams…
Horrors & Wonders is a collection of these tales and many more—stories of horror and fantasy and science fiction that capture what makes this world, and all others, both frightening and wondrous.
(Cover art by Don Noble)
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“Hughes’s horror is horrific. His fantasy is fantastic. But what makes him unique in a market of cordoned off, rigid genres is his ability to mix the creepy and the wondrous: you’re eager to step through the portal into this new world, but you’ll quickly wish it hadn’t closed off behind you.”
—Jonathan W. Thurston, Sinister Stoat Press
“Imaginative and unsettling, Horrors & Wonders is a creepy and delightful collection for fans of the fantastic and the weird. With each story, Scott Hughes plucks at our nostalgia, our desires, and our fears.”
—Crystal O’Leary-Davidson, co-editor of Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable: The Cultural Links between the Human and Inhuman
“Hughes’s stories are smart and savage, full of sharp wit and always scary.”
—David W. Barbee, author of Laser House on the Prairie
“Horrors & Wonders took me to mirror-worlds, then made the floor drop. Hughes has a way of making even the scariest ideas—like a monster dwelling in the depths of a Georgia swamp—seem possible. And horrifying. Yet he makes the most mundane of human experiences—getting a rejection letter from a publisher—magical and funny. If Stephen King’s Night Shift and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Orsinian Tales had a baby, it would be Horrors & Wonders.”
—J.W. Young, author of I Cover You Over with Roses, joyousinhell.blogspot.com
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