{"product_id":"9780615698397","title":"Back Roads and Frontal Lobes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese 23 short tales take you along dark, unlined roads and into dark minds less traveled. Held together by themes of isolation and loneliness, existentialism and hope, and choice versus fate, and at turns both disturbing and darkly comical (while often tinged with sadness), this collection of stories explores both speculative fiction and realism: horror and dark fantasy, road stories and crime, dark drama and soft sci-fi, and surrealism and magical realism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eADVANCED PRAISE FOR \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBack Roads \u0026amp; Frontal Lobes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... will make your head spin and tie your nerves in knots. Can you tell I liked it? I guarantee you will, as well!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Gary A. Braunbeck, 6-time Bram Stoker Award™ winning author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo Each Their Darkness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Cracked and Broken Path\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Each story spins out a heightening dread, the prose swinging from brutal to beautiful and back again. A stellar collection!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- John Hornor Jacobs, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSouthern Gods\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis Dark Earth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Brady Allen's dark, finely-crafted tales take you on journeys that make your heart and gut clench and set your teeth hard against each other; they drive you headlong into irresistible worlds of insanity and horror. Buckle up, readers!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Elizabeth Massie, Bram Stoker Award™ and Scribe Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSineater, Wire Mesh Mothers, Homegrown\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNaked, On the Edge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... a master class in fiction writing, wildly entertaining and highly recommended!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Tim Waggoner, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLike Death\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Harmony Society\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Diverse, strange, and disturbing, and churning with a power as primal as it is intelligent, \u003ci\u003eBack Roads and Frontal Lobes\u003c\/i\u003e delivers the goods but leaves some bloody footprints. After several helpings of his work, you'll want more and would probably kill to get it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Steven L. Shrewsbury, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOverkill, Thrall\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHawg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Post Mortem Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027017908464,"sku":"9780615698397","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780615698397_p0.jpg?v=1763599550","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780615698397","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}