{"product_id":"dead-writers-stories-9781778430541","title":"Dead Writers: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Though the four novellas comprising \u003ci\u003eDead Writers\u003c\/i\u003e vary tremendously in style and subject matter, they all evoke a delicious, spine-tingling sense of dread. These tales take readers on a head spinning journey through the inner workings of a cruel colonial school, all the way to a creepy contemporary vacation rental, never losing sight of the selfish, unscrupulous, and inescapable aspects of human behaviour. This is a collection that will keep you turning pages, but that will also make you wonder: Are the pages turning you?\"\u003cb\u003e--Allegra Hyde, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Catastrophe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collaborative fiction project, four writers navigate the protean concept of the \"bargain\" in novella-length stories. A biographer surveying the career of a \"haunted\" literary figure, a lovelorn journalist entering into a diabolic covenant, a tourist attempting to stay sober through her holiday travels, and a doctor's complicity in a colonial scandal: These horror-inflected offerings of existential dread, tainted pasts, and uncertain futures serve as an unbalancing reminder that there is always a high price to pay for the corruption of the soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Marc Ah-Sen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eGrand Menteur\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Beggarly Style of Imitation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKilworthy Tanner\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Comics Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHazlitt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaclean's\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. The \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e has hailed his writing as \"an inventive escape from the conventional.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael LaPointe\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Creep\u003c\/i\u003e (Random House Canada, 2021). He has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and he was a columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCassidy McFadzean\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eCrying Dress\u003c\/i\u003e (House of Anansi, 2024), \u003ci\u003eDrolleries\u003c\/i\u003e (McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart, 2019), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, and \u003ci\u003eHacker Packer\u003c\/i\u003e (M\u0026amp;S, 2015), winner of two Saskatchewan Book Awards and finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003ecarte blanche\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJoyland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMaisonneuve\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePrism International\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNaben Ruthnum\u003c\/b\u003e is a Toronto-based author of fiction and criticism. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eHelpmeet\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Grimmer\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Hero of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Invisible Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51184851583250,"sku":"9781778430541","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27c1d68e-d431-4d89-a837-2f8f819fd5ab.jpg?v=1744579814","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dead-writers-stories-9781778430541","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}