{"product_id":"9781480494824","title":"Black Pockets: And Other Dark Thoughts","description":"In this masterful collection of horror stories, George Zebrowski divides these nineteen tales into personal, political, and metaphysical terrors—stories to scare you individually, stories to frighten you as a social animal, and stories that should terrify the entire human race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In “I Walked with Fidel,” a young man encounters a once politically powerful zombie; “Jumper” focuses on a young woman with a dark and troubled past, while in “The Coming of Christ the Joker,” the lighthearted banter of a celebrity TV talk show becomes something far more serious. “A Piano Full of Dead Spiders” is an eerie story of genius, its demands, and its delusions; in “Passing Nights,” the truth behind a recurring nightmare is revealed; “The Soft Terrible Music” depicts a man who must hide his past even from himself. And in the title story, the novella “Black Pockets,” Zebrowski asks: What happens to a man when his desire for revenge becomes all-consuming?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With an introduction by Howard Waldrop and an afterword by the author, George Zebrowski reveals himself in \u003ci\u003eBlack Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts\u003c\/i\u003e as a writer who can play on our more disturbing emotions even as he impels us to deeper thoughts.","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125732819184,"sku":"9781480494824","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480494824_p0.jpg?v=1769894160","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480494824","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}