The Hidden Back Room

by Jason A. Wyckoff

The Hidden Back Room is Jason A. Wyckoff’s second collection exploring the eerie and wondrous across Amer¬ica. The fourteen tales collected here reveal the dangers awaiting those who wander unwarily on paths both well-lit and deeply shadowed. In ‘Details’, an insurance adjuster discovers he can presage disaster. A woman learns that to be a part of history, she must lose her place in time in ‘Les Ombres Chinoises’. A journalist witnesses par-thenogenesis in a junkyard in ‘A Blood Without Blood’. An office manager contends with a monster trapped in his building’s basement in ‘Comfortidor’. In the novelette ‘The Dreams of Pale Night’, a young man yearns to leave an Alaskan town shielded from the sun. Within, lost souls are found.

306 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 10, 2016

Reviews

[Des Lewis · Rating 4 out of 5]

They keep on coming. Well, this one sort of comes on its own, a potential future classic for those who love the generic Weird tale, the Horror story or Ghost story, including, but not exclusively, the Lovecraftian – as well as something special that makes this story its own backstory, its own hidden back room, implicit with the frightening ceiling that’s planted above it, like a psychological or spiritual chandelier or fan, an insectoid-human intertwining of text with the dragon or demon inside your own unvented stomach. Yes, I feel this story IS a classic, and does not need yet to become one.

The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long to post here.
Above is one of its observations at the time of the review.