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Spontaneous Human Combustion by Richard Thomas with a foreward by Brain Evenson

Paperback – Keylight Books – 2022 – 248 pages

In this new collection, Richard Thomas has crafted fourteen stories that push the boundaries of dark fiction in an intoxicating, piercing blend of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.

• • A poker game yields a strange prize that haunts one man, his game of chance now turned into a life-or-death coin flip.

• • A set of twins find they have mysterious new powers when an asteroid crashes in a field near their house, and the decisions they make create an uneasy balance.

• • A fantasy world is filled with one man’s desire to feel whole again, finally finding love, only to have the shocking truth of his life exposed in an appalling twist.

• • A father and son work slave labor in a brave new world run by aliens and mount a rebellion that may end up freeing them all.

• • A clown takes off his make-up in a gloomy basement to reveal something more horrifying under the white, tacky skin.