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Growing Things and Other Stories - SIGNED LIMITED

By Paul Tremblay.

Art by Daniele Serra.

"One of the best collections of the 21st century."

—Stephen King

A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.

Including a BONUS story not published in other editions.

A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting glimpse into Paul Tremblay’s fantastically fertile imagination.

In “The Teacher,” a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story, a student is forced to watch a disturbing video that will haunt and torment her and her classmates’ lives.

Four men rob a pawn shop at gunpoint only to vanish, one-by-one, as they speed away from the crime scene in “The Getaway.”

In “Swim Wants to Know If It’s as Bad as Swim Thinks,” a meth addict kidnaps her daughter from her estranged mother as their town is terrorized by a giant monster . . . or not.

Joining these haunting works are stories linked to Tremblay’s previous novels. The tour de force metafictional novella “Notes from the Dog Walkers” deconstructs horror and publishing, possibly bringing in a character from A Head Full of Ghosts, all while serving as a prequel to Disappearance at Devil’s Rock. “The Thirteenth Temple” follows another character from A Head Full of Ghosts—Merry, who has published a tell-all memoir written years after the events of the novel. And the title story, “Growing Things,” a shivery tale loosely shared between the sisters in A Head Full of Ghosts, is told here in full.

From global catastrophe to the demons inside our heads, Tremblay illuminates our primal fears and darkest dreams in startlingly original fiction that leaves us unmoored. As he lowers the sky and yanks the ground from beneath our feet, we are compelled to contemplate the darkness inside our own hearts and minds.
 

Table of Contents:

 GROWING THINGS
 SWIM WANTS TO KNOW IF IT’S AS BAD AS SWIM THINKS
 SOMETHING ABOUT BIRDS
 THE GETAWAY
 NINETEEN SNAPSHOTS OF DENNISPORT
 WHERE WE ALL WILL BE
 THE TEACHER
 NOTES FOR “THE BARN IN THE WILD”

 OUR TOWN’S MONSTER
 A HAUNTED HOUSE IS A WHEEL UPON WHICH SOME ARE BROKEN
 IT WON’T GO AWAY
 NOTES FROM THE DOG WALKERS
 FURTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE SOMNAMBULIST
 THE ICE TOWER
 THE SOCIETY OF THE MONSTERHOOD
 HER RED RIGHT HAND
 IT’S AGAINST THE LAW TO FEED THE DUCKS
 THE THIRTEENTH TEMPLE
 RED EYES (Bonus Story)

Signed Limited Hardcover Edition:
 Limited to only 400 signed and hand-numbered copies
 Personally signed by Paul Tremblay on a specially designed full-colour illustrated signature page
 Larger 6.14” x 9.21” trim size
 Printed on 90gsm acid-free paper
 Bound in premium cloth with coloured head and tail bands
 Hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
 Offset printed and bound with full-colour endpapers
 Sewn binding for increased durability
 Dust jacket artwork and TEN interior illustrations by Daniele Serra
 Including a BONUS story not published in other editions.
375 Pages.

SST Publications, UK. New / New.