Black Hole Sundown NEW

Black Hole Sundown
by Brian Hodge

About the Book:

“I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder.” — Werner Herzog

In his sixth, and likely final, full-length story collection, Brian Hodge serves up his most mature and expansive vision of a universe that is, by turns, actively hostile and coldly indifferent...

Yet, at the same time, is the ultimate battleground for carving meaning out of chaos. Come for the horrors of the cosmos, writ large in the gulfs of space and time; stay for the horrors writ small, between the beats of a human heart. Among the casualties:

“West of Matamoros, North of Hell” • Taken by members of a cartel, three electro musicians from Mexico City struggle to keep their lives and souls intact when they’re plunged into the ancient Mesoamerican heritage of human sacrifice.

“Insanity Among Penguins” • Two film nerds, clinging to the long-gone glory days of indie video stores, pursue their ultimate prize: a nightmarish lost documentary by the legendary Werner Herzog.

“Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth” • The downfall of H.P. Lovecraft’s notorious seaport town, as seen by the hulking, career-doomed Bureau agent who broke the case wide open.

“The Atrocity Exhibitionists” • When the monstrous god of social media demands its due, nothing has less value than your dignity, your conscience, your soul.

“The Weight of the Dead” • After her father is exiled from their post-apocalyptic community, an adolescent girl deals with her sudden vulnerability to the resident predators, while a dark magic begins to re-emerge from the forests.

“On These Blackened Shores of Time” • A family suffering an unimaginable tragedy is engulfed by the discovery that their loss was hundreds of millions of years in the making.

Make your peace. A black sun is coming down, and it’s about to swallow everything.

Published as a Hardcover Limited Edition:

• Personally signed by the author on a unique signature page
• Bound in full-cloth with colored head and tail bands
• Featuring hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Printed and bound with full-color endpapers
• Smyth sewn to create a more durable binding
• Wrapped in a full-color dust jacket
• Limited ONE TIME printing of this special edition
• Retail price just $60!

About the Author:

Brian Hodge is one of those people who gets cranky unless he’s making stuff. To date, he’s made twenty novels and story collections, around 135 shorter works, reams of nonfiction, and a soundtrack album. Currently in the works are a new novel, a couple albums’ worth of music, and consultancy and screenplay work for a South American filmmaker. He lives snugged up against the Colorado Rockies, where he climbs the occasional 14er, so far without falling. Connect through his web site (www.brianhodge.net), or Facebook (www.facebook.com/brianhodgewriter).

Praise for Hodge:

“A writer of spectacularly unflinching gifts.” 

— Peter Straub

“Brian Hodge is clearly a master craftsman of a writer. His sense of character, setting, and concept is pitch perfect.” 

— This Is Horror UK

“Each book of his stands out as so original, that I’d have a difficult time in saying which was my personal favorite ... It’s his writing style, combined with his incredible imagination, which makes his books so consistently good.” 

— Horror After Dark

“Not only does Brian Hodge get the ‘Cosmic Awe’ concept nailed down, but his characters, and the way he describes the relationships between them, are expertly drawn to a degree that Lovecraft himself could never have achieved.” 

— The British Fantasy Society

“A fine display of Hodge’s skills as a writer, particularly his ability to combine the cosmic and the personal, the sublime and the intimate ... suggest[s] one reason for Hodge’s success, namely, that the mirror in which the galaxy swirls is a human eye.” 

— Locus