Visions through a Shattered Lens

by Gerard Houarner

Gerard Houarner, author of Painfreak, The Beast That Was Max and I Love You and There Is Nothing You Can Do About It, is quickly becoming one of the finest horror authors in print today. This limited edition hardcover showcases him at his best and is sure to be a valuable collector's item in years to come.

Houarner's second Delirium collection features more than 140,000 words of fiction (428 pages), including eighteen short stories and three novellas. Cover artwork and foil stamp design by Colleen Crary. Eleven of the twenty tales are original! Plus, both editions contain special story introductions from the author! Each edition is signed by both Crary and Houarner and numbered.

428 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

“Houarner is a smart, intelligent talent who has a gift for writing with serene beauty about the most atrocious things.” Ed Bryant, Locus

He is also the author of 5 novels and over 300 short stories and novellas, some gathered in 6 collections.

He fell to Earth in the fifties and is a product of the NYC school system and the City College of New York, where he studied writing under Joseph Heller and Joel Oppenheimer and crashed hallucinogenic William Burroughs seminars back in the day.

The mental health field has provided a living as well as inspiration for the past 34 years. His current position might be described as Director of Recovery and Recreation at Arkham Asylum.

Since 1998, he has served as Fiction Editor for Space and Time magazine.

He continues to write whenever he can, mostly at night, about the dark.

Reviews

[Kurt Criscione]

Interesting collection of stories and the new edition coming from Crossroad Pres has 2 new stories added into it.