{"product_id":"the-dreamer-in-fire-and-sam-gafford-9781614981954","title":"The Dreamer in Fire and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor a decade or more, Sam Gafford has been quietly developing a reputation as a writer willing and able to fuse supernatural horror with psychological suspense, resulting in tales of grim power and penetrating insight into aberrant states of mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH. P. Lovecraft is the focus of many of the stories in this book, Gafford's first collection of short stories. With rare poignancy and delicacy, Gafford puts the figure of Lovecraft himself--either real or imagined--on stage in such stories as \"Passing Spirits,\" where the Providence writer's terminal cancer is addressed; \"'The Dreamer in Fire, '\" where a mysterious writer very much in the Lovecraft mold is the focus of a pseudo-scholarly analysis; \"Casting Fractals,\" in which Lovecraft's work serves as an uncannily accurate prophecy of the cataclysmic events that followed after his death; and \"Weltschermz,\" where a character takes Lovecraft's dark vision of the world a bit too seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther stories show the diversity of Gafford's inspirations. \"The Adventure of the Prometheus Calculation\" is a new Sherlock Holmes tale--one that does not end well for that famous detective. In \"'How Does That Make You Feel?'\" a patient undergoing psychiatric analysis imagines himself a pulp superhero from the 1940s--but is it only his imagination? And \"The Land of Lonesomeness\" evokes the final days of William Hope Hodgson on the bloody fields of Flanders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sam Gafford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1614981957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781614981954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hippocampus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/04\/2017","brand":"Sam Gafford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939207774463,"sku":"9781614981954","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_77b0c1f8-7be3-4948-86e4-25f9fd75b97b.jpg?v=1681440133","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dreamer-in-fire-and-sam-gafford-9781614981954","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}