The Man on the Ceiling
- Authors
- Tem, Steve Rasnic & Tem, Melanie
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
- Tags
- horror , dark fantasy , dark fiction , psychological horror , surrealism
- ISBN
- 9780786948581
- Date
- 2008-03-04T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.34 MB
- Lang
- en
Two interwoven memoirs of love, loss, and family with a haunted, frightening edge.
In 2000, American Fantasy Press published an unassuming chapbook titled The Man on the Ceiling. Inside was a dark, surreal, discomfiting story of the horrors that can befall a family. It was so powerful that it won the Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award, and World Fantasy Award--the only work ever to win all three. Now, Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem have re-imagined the story, expanding on the ideas to create a compelling work that examines how people find a family, how they hold a family together despite incomprehensible tragedy, and how, in the end, they find love.
Loosely autobiographical, The Man on the Ceiling has the feel of a family portrait painted by Salvador Dali, where story and reality blend to find the one thing that neither can offer alone: truth.