- Private investigators, Stepfathers, Paranormal fiction, Horror tales
John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He’s been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid’s stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable. He’s also a monster, which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his ancient, arcane existence, he’s hunted gods and demons, and broken them in his teeth. As Persons investigates the horrible McKinsey, he realizes that he carries something far darker. He’s infected with an alien presence, and he’s spreading that monstrosity far and wide. Luckily Persons is no stranger to the occult, being an ancient and magical intelligence himself. The question is whether the private dick can take down the abusive stepdad without releasing the holds on his own horrifying potential.
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Bleak, grave, contemporary and classical in form.
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- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Cassandra Khaw
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 107
- Publisher
- Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, Tom Doherty Associates Book
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780765392718
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Cassandra Khaw writes horror, video games, tweets for money, articles about video games, and tabletop RPGs. These are not necessarily unrelated items. Her work can be found in professional short story magazines such as Clarkesworld, Fireside Fiction, Uncanny, and Shimmer. Cassandra's first paranormal rom-com Bearly a Lady releases this year. She hopes no one will be very startled by A Song for Quiet when it follows the month after. This information is taken from Cassandra Khaw's [Goodreads bio][1]. [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13994108.Cassandra_Khaw
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