Black Pockets

In this masterful collection of horror stories, George Zebrowski divides these nineteen tales into personal, political, and metaphysical terrors?stories to scare you individually, stories to frighten you as a social animal, and stories that should terrify the entire human race. In ?I Walked with Fidel,? a young man encounters a once politically powerful zombie; ?Jumper? focuses on a young woman with a dark and troubled past, while in ?The Coming of Christ the Joker,? the lighthearted banter of a celebrity TV talk show becomes something far more serious. ?A Piano Full of Dead Spiders? is an eerie story of genius, its demands, and its delusions; in ?Passing Nights,? the truth behind a recurring nightmare is revealed; ?The Soft Terrible Music? depicts a man who must hide his past even from himself. And in the title story, the novella ?Black Pockets,? Zebrowski asks: What happens to a man when his desire for revenge becomes all-consuming? With an introduction by Howard Waldrop and an afterword by the author, George Zebrowski reveals himself in?Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts?as a writer who can play on our more disturbing emotions even as he impels us to deeper thoughts.