{"product_id":"a-sick-gray-laugh-9781939905529","title":"A Sick Gray Laugh","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning author Noelle Cashman is no stranger to depression and anxiety. In fact, her entire authorial brand, showcased in such titles as \u003cem\u003eThe Girl with the Gun in Her Mouth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLeather Noose\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Breath Curse\u003c\/em\u003e, has been built on the hopeless phantasmagoric visions she experiences when in the grip of paranoid psychosis. But Noelle has had enough, and, author brand be damned, has found help for her illness in the form of an oblong yellow pill, taken twice daily.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince starting on this medication, Noelle's symptoms have gone into remission. She's taken up jogging. She's joined a softball team. For the first time in Noelle's life, she feels hope. She's even started work on a nonfiction book, a history of her small southern Indiana town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then Noelle starts to notice the overwhelming Grayness that dominates her neighborhood, slathered over everything like a thick coat of snot, threatening to assimilate all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Bram Stoker Award-winning author Nicole Cushing comes \u003cem\u003eA Sick Gray Laugh\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel about madness, depression, history, Utopian cults, literature, sports, and all the ways we struggle to stay sane in an insane world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCushing, Nicole:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Nicole Cushing is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Mr. Suicide and a two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award. Various reviewers have described her work as brutal, cerebral, transgressive, taboo, groundbreaking, and mind-bending. Rue Morgue magazine recently included Nicole in its list of 13 Wicked Women to Watch, praising her as an intense and uncompromising literary voice. She has also garnered praise from Jack Ketchum, Thomas Ligotti, and Poppy Z. Brite (aka, Billy Martin). Nicole lives and works in Indiana.","brand":"Word Horde","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525276209426,"sku":"9781939905529","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f4684fba-c73c-47bf-9c33-3c0fffaabe14.jpg?v=1731211937","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-sick-gray-laugh-9781939905529","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}