Aftershock & Others: 16 Oddities by F Paul Wilson

Aftershock & Others is the third collection of short fiction by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson, hailed by the Rocky Mountain News as ΓÇ£among the finest storytellers of our times.ΓÇ¥

The title novelette won the Bram Stoker Award and its companions touch on the past, present, and futureΓÇöfrom the inflationary insanity of Weimar Germany (ΓÇ£Aryans and AbsintheΓÇ¥) to disco clubΓÇôera Manhattan (ΓÇ£When He Was FabΓÇ¥), to the rationing of medical services in a grim near future (ΓÇ£OffshoreΓÇ¥).

WilsonΓÇÖs stylistic diversity and versatility are on display in stories that pay tribute to Ray Bradbury (ΓÇ£The November GameΓÇ¥), use a sentient killer virus as a point-of-view character (ΓÇ£Lysing toward BethlehemΓÇ¥), and pay unabashed homage to pure pulp fiction in two yellow peril stories (ΓÇ£Sex Slaves of the Dragon TongΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£Part of the GameΓÇ¥). And finally, Wilson treats us to his popular antihero Repairman Jack at his most inventive: trapped in a drugstore with four killers (ΓÇ£Interlude at DuaneΓÇÖsΓÇ¥).

Genre: Science Fiction, Horror, Anthology