{"product_id":"9789619165201","title":"What The Giants Were Saying","description":"\"The November air was cold, but not cold enough to still the energy of the great white towers. They spun and spun as always - huge sails whirling around, always seeming just slightly faster than they should be.\" \u003cp\u003e'What The Giants Were Saying' is a dark-hued and surreal fable - a Pilgrim's Progress on the theme of creativity. It is an extreme horror tale of artist's block, tattoos, Don Quixote, copper wire . . . and wind turbines! Always wind turbines! It tells of a landscape artist desperately trying to escape his own feelings of mundanity and having hallucinatory encounters both with those great white whispering giants and a wild tattooed girl who pushes creative experience to the very limit and knows that the towers are the key to something remarkable. Tattoos, Windmills, turbines, human skin and copper wire . . . with these keys a world of supernatural change is unlocked - and supernatural creation. After all, what could creativity be like when such things as pain, life and death no longer have the same meaning? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* \u003cbr\u003e• * \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cal pinned the tattooed girl's skin to the small artist's canvas and stood looking at it, a tear trickling down his cheek.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'What the Giants Were Saying' is accompanied here by the shorter work that inspired it, 'Red Fire', a piece that pushes the boundaries of extreme horror into a visionary and surreal world of love and pain, great white moths and tattooed skin, and above all, into the world of story itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese two connected tales are both horror writing at its most spectacular and extreme. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* \u003cbr\u003e• * \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Rix, was born in England in 1978. He has had a lifelong fascination with horror and the surreal and has been a dedicated reader and collector of books for many years. In 2004 his first story was published in the world fantasy award-winning anthology Strange Tales from Tartarus Press. David now lives in Slovenia, where he works as a digital artist and proofreader and is currently at work on a second novella and his first full-length novel, a fusion of two literary genres: the ghost story and the travel book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eibonvale Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064871829744,"sku":"9789619165201","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789619165201_p0.jpg?v=1763680483","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789619165201","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}