The 'Geisters

“David Nickle writes ’em damned weird and damned good and damned dark. He is bourbon-rough, poetic and vivid. Don’t miss this one.”

—Cory Doctorow, author of Pirate Cinema

“Bleak, stark and creepy, Stoker-winner Nickle’s first collection will delight the literary horror reader…. This ambitious collection firmly establishes Nickle as a writer to watch.”

—Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)

“These stories work so well in part because of Nickle’s facility with the language of the place he’s created. He is comfortable writing in different voices… and he knows the idiom of his semi-rural environment….”

—Quill & Quire

“The cover is creepy…. The stories themselves are also very creepy, drawing you into believable, domestic worlds, then showing you the blue pulsing intestines of those worlds.”

—Kaaron Warren, author of Slights

“[L]ike the cover, the stories inside are not what they seem. But also, like the cover, the stories inside are brilliant…. You’d think that you were reading a book full of what you had always expected a horror story to be, but Nickle takes a left turn and blindsides you with tales that are not of the norm, but are all the more horrific because of surprise twists, darkness and raw emotion.”

—January Magazine’s Best Books of 2009