Voice of the Stranger by Eric Schaller

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Folk tales, legends, and even a holiday become strange and eerie thanks to Eric Schaller's imagination.

Eric Schaller's fiction has appeared in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Fantasy: Best of the Year, The Time Traveler's Almanac, SciFiction, Postscripts, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Polyphony, New Genre, Shadows & Tall Trees, and others. He teaches at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

I. Past Tense

The Five Cigars of Abu Ali                                                                                                 

The Watchmaker                                                                                                                 

North of Lake Winnipesaukee                                                                                             

A Study in Abnormal Physiology                                                                                       

II. Present Tense

Smoke, Ash, and Whatever Comes After                                                                           

Three Urban Folk Tales                                                                                                       

Wildflowers                                                                                                                         

All We Inherit                                                                                                                      

Hell and a Day                                                                                                                    

III. Future Tense

Automata                                                                                                                             

Monkey Shines                                                                                                                    

Christmas in the Altai                                                                                                          

How the Future Got Better                                                                                                  

Red Hood                                                                                                                             

"Be careful: reading Eric Schaller's collection, Voice of the Stranger, opens a door to the fairy tale realm of the mythically eerie and meaningful...one that you may not find as easy to close." - Will Ludwigsen

"Fans of Angela Carter's rewriting of fairy tales will find particular delight in this skillfully written, if grisly, collection." - Kirkus Reviews

Interior by Ryan Vance