One man's ability to travel in the astral realm leads to a terrifying discovery: powerful beings who manipulate lives and events for their own mysterious ends. It's his, and our, first encounter with The Controllers, but far from the last. After reading this collection of six tales - two of them brand new - which take you from the past, through the present and into the far future, you'll understand just how little influence you have over your own destiny.
With an introduction from the bestselling author of Dystopia and Created By, and Hollywood scriptwriter (the double Emmy Award-winning episode of Nightmares and Dreamscapes, 'Battleground') Richard Christian Matheson, cover art by Ben Baldwin (Gwendy's Button Box, Paradise Sky), and an extras section which includes scans of original handwritten drafts and a gallery of Controllers artwork, this is a truly unique new collection.
Take control...if you can!
'Paul Kane is a first-rate storyteller, never failing to marry his insights into the world and its anguish with the pleasures of phrases eloquently turned.' (Clive Barker - Bestselling author of The Hellbound Heart, Abarat, Mr B. Gone & The Scarlet Gospels)
'Paul Kane's lean, stripped-back prose is a tool that's very much fit for purpose. He knows how to make you want to avoid the shadows and the cracks in the pavement.' (Mike Carey - Bestselling author of the Felix Castor series of novels and The Girl With All the Gifts, Fellside and The Boy on the Bridge as M.R. Carey)
One man's ability to travel in the astral realm leads to a terrifying discovery: powerful beings who manipulate lives and events for their own mysterious ends. It's his, and our, first encounter with The Controllers, but far from the last. After reading this collection of six tales - two of them brand new - which take you from the past, through the present and into the far future, you'll understand just how little influence you have over your own destiny.
With an introduction from the bestselling author of Dystopia and Created By, and Hollywood scriptwriter (the double Emmy Award-winning episode of Nightmares and Dreamscapes, 'Battleground') Richard Christian Matheson, cover art by Ben Baldwin (Gwendy's Button Box, Paradise Sky), and an extras section which includes scans of original handwritten drafts and a gallery of Controllers artwork, this is a truly unique new collection.
Take control...if you can!
'Paul Kane is a first-rate storyteller, never failing to marry his insights into the world and its anguish with the pleasures of phrases eloquently turned.' (Clive Barker - Bestselling author of The Hellbound Heart, Abarat, Mr B. Gone & The Scarlet Gospels)
'Paul Kane's lean, stripped-back prose is a tool that's very much fit for purpose. He knows how to make you want to avoid the shadows and the cracks in the pavement.' (Mike Carey - Bestselling author of the Felix Castor series of novels and The Girl With All the Gifts, Fellside and The Boy on the Bridge as M.R. Carey)
Praise for Paul Kane
'Paul Kane is a first-rate storyteller, never failing to marry his
insights into the world and its anguish with the pleasures of
phrases eloquently turned.' (Clive Barker -- Bestselling author of
The Hellbound Heart, Abarat, Mr B. Gone & The Scarlet Gospels)
'Paul Kane's lean, stripped-back prose is a tool that's very much
fit for purpose. He knows how to make you want to avoid the shadows
and the cracks in the pavement.' (Mike Carey -- Bestselling author
of the Felix Castor series of novels and The Girl With All the
Gifts, Fellside and The Boy on the Bridge as M.R. Carey)
'Kane finds the everyday horrors buried within us, rips them out
and serves them up in these deliciously dark tales.' (Kelley
Armstrong -- Bestselling author of Bitten, Haunted, Broken, Waking
the Witch, Spell Bound and Thirteen)
'I'm impressed by the range of Paul Kane's imagination. It seems
there is no risk, no high-stakes gamble, he fears to take...Kane's
foot never gets even close to the brake pedal.' (Peter Straub --
Bestselling author of Ghost Story, Mr X, Lost Boy Lost Girl, and In
the Night Room)
'Paul Kane is a name to watch. His work is disturbing and very
creepy.' (Tim Lebbon -- New York Times bestselling author of The
Cabin in the Woods, The Silence and Relics)
'His stories not only, at his best, put him neck and neck with
Ramsey Campbell and Clive Barker, but also in the company of greats
like Machen and MR James. You don't rest easily after reading a
Paul Kane story, but strangely your eyes have been somewhat
opened.' (Stephen Volk -- BAFTA winning screenwriter of Gothic,
Ghostwatch, Afterlife, The Awakening and Midwinter of the Spirit;
author of Whitstable, Leytonstone and The Parts We Play)
'He stands out as one of the better writers I've read.' (Eternal
Night)
'Wonderfully dark and satisfying.' (Dark Side Magazine)
'Kane is best when taking risks with his bizarre flights of
imagination.' (SFX Magazine)
'Kane is a highly regarded author whose influence can be felt
across the genre, with a large and notable body of work behind
him.' (Starburst Magazine)
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