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Salt Snake & Other Bloody Cuts (1999)

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Silver Salamander Press, USA, 1998, hardback and paperback

This handsome 270-page volume gathers over 20 stories from both popular anthologies and rare magazines, including such highly regarded tales as “Portrait of a Girl in a Graveyard”, “Swallowing a Dirty Seed”, and the eerie masterpiece “The Burning Doorway”.

Published in three editions: deluxe edition hardback (leather bound, 50 copies, out of print), limited edition hardback (clothbound, 300 copies), trade paperback (perfect bound, 500 copies). All copies are signed by the author.

Contents

Salt Snake
Acorns – a Bitter Substitute for Olives
Gerassimos Flamotas: A Day in the Life
Lifting the Lid
Howls from a Blinding Curve
The Bike Ride Home
The Burning Doorway
A Biter Bit
Eyes Like a Ghost
Blood for Sex Bites
Live Wire
“I”
The Gravedigger’s Tale
Front of Head
The Last Barnsley Werewolf
Sacrifice
The Old Man at the Gate
Feed My Children
Expressed from the Wood
Portrait of a Girl in a Graveyard
Man in Danger – a Video Self-Portrait
Okay, Kiss Experience, But Don’t Open Your Mouth
Hearts Lost in a Vacuum
Beside the Seaside, Beside the Sea
Swallowing a Dirty Seed