Frequencies of Existence

by Andrew Hook

Andrew Hook sees the world through a different lens. He takes often mundane things and coaxes the reader to find strangeness, beauty, and horror in their form; he colours the world in surreal shades and leads the reader down discomforting paths where nothing is quite as it should be.
Frequencies of Existence features twenty-four of the author's finest stories, including four that are original to this collection.
"Andrew Hook is an undisputed superstar of strange fiction" - Neil Williamson, author of The Moon King
"A rich slab of Andrew Hook's trademark understated measured, careful, but ruthless in its own quiet way." - Chris Beckett, Arthur C. Clarke and Edge Hill Prize-winning author.
"His stories range from the darkly apocalyptic to the hopefully visionary, some brilliant and none less than satisfactory." - The Harrow
"Refreshingly original, uncompromisingly provocative, and daringly intelligent" - The Future Fire
Your Golden Hands The Universe At Gun Point Kodokushi A Knot of Toads The Abduction of Europe The Aniseed Gumball Kid Eskimo The Last Mohican Bullet A Life In Plastic Burning Daylight Making Friends With Fold-Out Flaps The Frequency of Existence The Stench of Winter A Pageant of Clouds Always Forever Today The Caged Sea Interference Softwood My Naked Man Tokyo In Rain The Day My Heart Stood Still Drowning In Air White Matter About the Author

234 pages, Paperback

First published October 13, 2020

About the author

Andrew Hook is a European writer who has been published extensively in the independent press since 1994 in a variety of genres, with over 170 short stories in print, including notable appearances in Interzone, Black Static, and several anthologies from PS Publishing and NewCon Press. His fiction has been reprinted in anthologies including Best British Horror 2015 and Best British Short Stories 2020, has been shortlisted for British Fantasy Society awards, and he was longlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize in 2020. As editor/publisher, he has won three British Fantasy Society awards and he also has been a judge for the World Fantasy Awards. Most recent publications include several noir crime novels through Head Shot Press, a novella written in collaboration with the legendary San Francisco art collective known as The Residents, and his tenth collection Candescent Blooms (Salt Publishing) which received a 5-star review in The Telegraph and was recently shortlisted for a British Fantasy Society award for best collection.

Andrew is currently working on three separate short story collections.

Reviews

[Des Lewis · Rating 5 out of 5]

While appreciating some stories more than others, this is overall a truly great collection of short fiction. After reading the whole review, you will gather why this is so, on several levels and speeds of frequency. It also somehow manages, with seeming autonymity, to match step by step my own constructive onward disorientation.

The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long to post here.
Above is its conclusion.

[Sophie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Let's talk of subtleties, of love, of other places, of never ending summers.