This career retrospective takes the best fiction of Dennis Etchison, culled from nearly fifty years in the field. Dennis Etchison (b. 1943) is an American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction. Etchison refers to his own work as “rather dark, depressing, almost pathologically inward fiction about the individual in relation to the world.”

His first short story collection, The Dark Country, was published in 1982. Its title story received the World Fantasy Award as well as the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection of that year. He was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for “The Late Shift” (1981), and won the award in 1982 for “The Dark Country,” as well as for Best Short Story for “The Olympic Runner” (1986) and “The Dog Park” (1994), all of which are included in this 600+ page retrospective.

This collection of stories features a new introduction by S. T. Joshi, a dozen original artworks by David Ho, original story notes by Dennis Etchison, and photographs of the author throughout the years, all in a signed, limited edition.