{"product_id":"the-shuddering-breath-before-oblivion-taylor-grant-9781968532123","title":"The Shuddering Breath Before Oblivion","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his final collection of short stories, once again we are invited into Taylor Grant's unique and macabre imagination. A man discovers a portal in his basement that offers him an infinite variety of alternate lives he can live. A woman seeks revenge on the man who destroyed her life. In treating a young man's haunted memories of a childhood trauma, a psychiatrist uncovers terrifying possibilities. A property speculator gets more than she bargained for when she buys an unsellable house in a small town with a morbid obsession with Halloween. And in the collection's title story, a journalist fights to solve the mystery of a world of disappearing people. Come on in and explore the dark labyrinths of the human mind and what it's capable of, if you dare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Taylor Grant's stories burrow into your mind like a dark seed, innocuous at first, growing until they overtake you. These stories are all winners, each bringing Grant's classic blend of twist-filled California macabre with a heaping dose of EC comics. This volume is a terrific testament to a life's work ... one that should find a place on the shelf amongst his heroes and peers.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-John Palisano, Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of \u003cem\u003eRequiem \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eGhost Heart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I've always admired Taylor Grant's extraordinary gifts for lifting up life's most mundane rocks - bureaucracy, crushing jobs, middle-class striving, fragile egos - and shining a light on the things slithering through the darkness beneath. His fiction can be wryly amusing or even reassuring, but it's always disturbing, and The Shuddering Breath Before Oblivion should be a welcome addition to any collection of great horror.\"\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLisa Morton, six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProudly represented by \u003cstrong\u003eCrystal Lake Publishing-Where Stories Come Alive!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Taylor Grant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1968532129\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781968532123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crystal Lake Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d","brand":"Taylor Grant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997103665407,"sku":"9781968532123","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-shuddering-breath-before-oblivion-taylor-grant-9781968532123","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}