Black Horse and Other Strange Stories by Jason A. Wyckoff, published by Tartarus Press



Black Horse
and Other Strange Stories
by Jason A Wyckoff

This new collection of sixteen tales uncovers the strangeness within everyday America, the fable in the familiar. ‘The Highwall Horror’ sees an office worker discover the portal to an alien cathedral in a cubicle wall; in ‘Panorama’ an artist’s agent examines his client’s deserted masterpiece; a young man follows a forgotten song to the haunted town that spawned it in ‘The Bells, Then the Birds’; a young mother escapes her wastrel husband only to become lost in a perilous swell of freedom in ‘The Mauve Blot’; and in ‘Black Horse’ an inherited steed brings uneasiness and worse to its new owner.


Black Horse and Other Strange Stories is Jason A. Wyckoff’s first venture into print. He explores the surreal and supernatural in an original, authentic, and always insightful new voice. Wyckoff was born in Columbus, Ohio, USA, where he still lives with his wife and their pets. He was awarded a Bachelor of Music Composition degree from The Ohio State University and then played indie-rock in dive bars for a decade or so.


Read "The Highwall Horror" from The Black Horse as a pdf here.

A video trailer is available here.


ISBN 978-1-905784-41-7

Black Horse and Other Strange Stories is a sewn hardback of 266 pages, printed lithographically, with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and d/w.
Limited to 300 copies.Price Ł32.50/$50 inc. p&p.

Also available as an ebook: Ł3.50

Reviews:

" 'The Highwall Horror' [is a] story full of oblique angles and shifting perspectives, as the protagonist's worldview becomes unravelled ... 'Black Horse' [is] another highlight ... A strange offbeat tale, with hints of the wild hunt ... but with a quality that is uniquely Wyckoff’s own ... 'A Willow Cat in Meadowlark' [is a] story melding prosaic and magical to the betterment of both." - Peter Tennant, Black Static

"...these tales are the work of a writer skilled at navigating the twists and turns of his unconventional horror themes." Publishers Weekly

"Black Horse is a surprising and impossible-to-overlook debut, perhaps even a dark horse contender for best collection of the year." Twilight Ridge

"It's the sort of collection that you'll read slowly, deliberately, drawing out the pleasure on your porch in the long afternoons and haunted evenings." Agony Column

This is an astonishing debut book by a superb writer, whose stories remind us how rewarding and bewitching good fiction can be. - Mario Guslandi, The British Fantasy Society