Staff Pick
These stories will spook you right out of your skin! Includes the story that eventually became Jones's incredibly visceral novel Mongrels, as well as many other wonderful stories. Read after dark at your own risk. Recommended By David R., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
WINNER, Best Collection of the Year, THIS IS HORROR
NOMINATED, Best Collection of the Year, BRAM STOKER AWARDS
NOMINATED, Best Collection of the Year, SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARDS
The fifteen stories in After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones explore the horrors and fears of the supernatural and the everyday. Included are two original stories, several rarities and out of print narratives, as well as a few "best of the year" inclusions. In "Thirteen," horrors lurk behind the flickering images on the big screen. "Welcome to the Reptile House" reveals the secrets that hide in our flesh. In "The Black Sleeve of Destiny," a single sweatshirt leads to unexpectedly dark adventures. And the title story, "After the People Lights Have Gone Off," is anything but your typical haunted house story.
With an introduction by Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale, and featuring fifteen full-page illustrations by Luke Spooner, After the People Lights Have Gone Off gets under your skin and stays there.
Review
"If I've read better horror writers than Jones, I've forgotten them. He's at the apex of his game. After the People Lights Have Gone Off is the kind of collection that lodges in your brain like a malignant grain of an evil dream. And it's just going to be there, forever." Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
Review
Stephen Graham Jones is a true master of the horror short story. Inventive, quirky, unexpected and masterful.” Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Fall of Night and Bad Blood
Review
"Stephen Graham Jones is a great devourer of stories, chewing up horror novels and detective stories and weird fiction, ingesting literature of every type and pedigree, high and low and everything in between. His stories betray his encyclopedic knowledge of genre and of storytelling, but what makes After the People Lights Have Gone Off unique is how Jones never rests among his influences, going beyond what other writers might dare to craft terrors and triumphs all his own." Matt Bell, In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods
Synopsis
This collection of fifteen stories taps into the horrors and fears of the supernatural as well as the everyday. Included are two original stories, several rarities and out of print narratives, as well as a few "best of the year" inclusions. Stephen Graham Jones is a master storyteller. What
does happen after the people lights have gone off? Crack the spine and find out.
With an introduction by Joe R. Lansdale, this collection includes "Thirteen," "Brushdogs," "Welcome to the Reptile House," "This is Love," "The Spindly Man," "The Black Sleeve of Destiny," "The Spider Box," "Snow Monsters," "Doc's Story," "The Dead Are Not," "Xebico," "Second Chances," "After the People Lights Have Gone Off," "Uncle," and "Solve for X."
About the Author
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of fifteen novels and five collections, and has some two hundred stories published. Stephen's been an NEA Fellow and has won the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Fiction and the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural fiction. He's forty-two, married with a couple of kids, and lives in Boulder, Colorado.