Black Pockets

In this masterful collection of horror stories, George Zebrowski divides these nineteen tales into personal, political, and metaphysical terrors-stories to scare you individually, stories to frighten you as a social animal, and stories that should terrify the entire human race. In &quote;I Walked with Fidel,&quote; a young man encounters a once politically powerful zombie; &quote;Jumper&quote; focuses on a young woman with a dark and troubled past, while in &quote;The Coming of Christ the Joker,&quote; the lighthearted banter of a celebrity TV talk show becomes something far more serious. &quote;A Piano Full of Dead Spiders&quote; is an eerie story of genius, its demands, and its delusions; in &quote;Passing Nights,&quote; the truth behind a recurring nightmare is revealed; &quote;The Soft Terrible Music&quote; depicts a man who must hide his past even from himself. And in the title story, the novella &quote;Black Pockets,&quote; Zebrowski asks: What happens to a man when his desire for revenge becomes all-consuming?With an introduction by Howard Waldrop and an afterword by the author, George Zebrowski reveals himself in Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts as a writer who can play on our more disturbing emotions even as he impels us to deeper thoughts.