Thought Forms

by Jeffrey Thomas

A NOVEL OF SUPERNATURAL HORROR FROM THE VISIONARY AUTHOR OF PUNKTOWN AND LETTERS FROM HADES. THOUGHT FORMS follows the alternating stories of two cousins stalked by mysterious enemies bent on their destruction... Ray is a lonely young worker in a leather goods factory, whose parents were murdered by unknown assailants when he was just a child. Now, years later, having moved into the same remote house in which the murders occurred, Ray becomes increasingly harassed by enigmatic robed figures who may be connected to that long ago night of carnage. Meanwhile, Ray s cousin Paul goes to his job in the plastics company where he works nights, unaware that soon he and a small crew of coworkers will become trapped inside and hunted by an inhuman entity against which they must desperately battle if they hope to survive until morning."

129 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Jeffrey Thomas is an American author of weird fiction, the creator of the acclaimed setting Punktown. Books in the Punktown universe include the short story collections Punktown, Voices from Punktown, Punktown: Shades of Grey (with his brother, Scott Thomas), and Ghosts of Punktown. Novels in that setting include Deadstock, Blue War, Monstrocity, Health Agent, Everybody Scream!, Red Cells, and The New God. Thomas’s other short story collections include The Unnamed Country, Gods of a Nameless Country, The Endless Fall, Haunted Worlds, Worship the Night, Thirteen Specimens, Nocturnal Emissions, Doomsdays, Terror Incognita, Unholy Dimensions, AAAIIIEEE!!!, Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood, Carrion Men, Voices from Hades, The Return of Enoch Coffin, and Entering Gosston. His other novels include The American, Boneland, Subject 11, Letters From Hades, The Fall of Hades, The Exploded Soul, The Nought, Thought Forms, Beyond the Door, Lost in Darkness, and A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers.

His work has been reprinted in The Year’s Best Horror Stories XXII (editor Karl Edward Wagner), The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #14 (editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling), and Year’s Best Weird Fiction #1 (editors Laird Barron and Michael Kelly). At NecronomiCon 2024 Thomas received the Robert Bloch Award for his contributions to weird fiction.

Though he considers Viet Nam his second home, Thomas lives in Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Phillip Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it! The obsessive characters and odd slice of life narratives that built and built into truly horrific crescendoes were like the perfect mix of American Psycho, Universal Harvester, and its own unique monstrosity. That Jeffrey Thomas wrote this by hand in the 80s is incredible and shows that his imagination is so far out there that the rest of us are still trying to catch up.

Easily one of the weirdest, most-unputdownable slow burns I've read. It felt like waiting for a car crash that you knew was coming.

[Trent · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jeffrey Thomas is rad. The dude's imagination knows no bounds. Two alternating stories, one about Ray and one about Paul, cousins both dealing with macabre and surreal happenings. Skillful writer and fantastic storyteller... did I mention his vast imagination? Give this one a read. I think you'll be very glad you did.

[Clayton Bye · Rating 4 out of 5]

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