{"title":"Attila Veres","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"thisll-make-things-a-little-easier-paperback","title":"This'll Make Things a Little Easier - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttila Veres' \u003cem\u003eThe Black Maybe\u003c\/em\u003e was hailed as one of the best horror debuts in years and was chosen as \u003cem\u003eRue Morgue\u003c\/em\u003e's best collection of 2022 and a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. Critics compared it to debuts by Clive Barker and Thomas Ligotti in terms of its sheer originality of style and vision. Now Veres is back with a follow-up collection of unforgettable cosmic horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 'a pit full of teeth', a writer finds out that one of his stories will be translated into an extremely obscure language. But when his copy of the book arrives, it doesn't match what he wrote: instead, the text contains a much more horrific narrative that may be playing out in reality. In 'The Designated Contact Individual', a traveling representative for a soft drink company finds his sales territory expanding when he is sent to an alternate reality where they have their own nightmarish use for his cola. The narrator in 'The Summer I Chose to Die' is ready to give up on life, until a murderous army of fish-people begins to rise from the oceans. And in the title story, money literally does grow on trees when the government tries to alleviate poverty by supplying families with a strange new plant species, but their newfound financial gain comes at a terrible cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the stories in his first collection, the tales in \u003cem\u003eThis'll Make Things a Little Easier\u003c\/em\u003e are blood-chillingly frightening, often darkly humorous, and always dazzlingly brilliant. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101192098015,"sku":"9781954321946","price":28.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/fzHbmSwDcj9781954321946.webp?v=1781068440"},{"product_id":"the-black-maybe-liminal-tales-paperback","title":"The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttila Veres, Hungary's leading horror writer, makes his English debut at last in this groundbreaking new collection featuring ten of his finest tales. The volume opens with 'To Bite a Dog', in which a man's budding relationship is jeopardized by his girlfriend's bizarre and macabre habit involving dogs. 'Fogtown' tells of a legendary '90s rock band whose music nobody has ever actually heard but which might nonetheless spell doom for a man obsessed with finding their recordings. 'Multiplied by Zero' is a wry travelogue in which a man recounts his hellish experiences on a holiday tour exploring Lovecraftian landscapes. And in the title story 'The Black Maybe', which Steve Rasnic Tem calls 'one of the weirdest tales I've read in years', a girl and her family escape the city bustle to experience farm life, only to discover with unimaginable horror the truth of what is really being harvested there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese tales showcase a range of genres and styles, from weird fiction to folk horror to cosmic horror, and reveal a dazzlingly original new writer whose stories are thrilling, frightening, often blackly humorous, and totally unlike anything you have read before. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101523153119,"sku":"9781954321700","price":34.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MStxZ3QxUDdjOW1wcUhXbGdVTUkrUT09.webp?v=1781071653"},{"product_id":"thisll-make-things-a-little-easier-hardcover","title":"This'll Make Things a Little Easier - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttila Veres' \u003cem\u003eThe Black Maybe\u003c\/em\u003e was hailed as one of the best horror debuts in years and was chosen as \u003cem\u003eRue Morgue\u003c\/em\u003e's best collection of 2022 and a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. 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