{"product_id":"book-av47","title":"Poe's Children","description":"From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection  of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing  today’s most talented voices in the genre.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Horror writing is usually associated  with formulaic gore, but New Wave horror writers have more in common with the wildly  inventive, evocative spookiness of Edgar Allan Poe than with the sometimes-predictable  hallmarks of their peers. Showcasing this cutting-edge talent, \u003ci\u003ePoe’s Children \u003c\/i\u003enow  brings the best of the genre’s stories to a wider audience. Each previously published story  has been selected by Peter Straub to represent what he thinks is the most interesting development  in our literature during the last two decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Selections range from the early Stephen  King psychological thriller “The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet,” in which an editor  confronts an author’s belief that his typewriter is inhabited by supernatural creatures,  to “The Man on the Ceiling,” Melanie and Steve Rasnic Tem’s award-winning surreal  tale of night terrors, woven with daylight fears that haunt a family. Other selections  include National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon’s “The Bees”; Peter Straub’s “Little  Red’s Tango,” the legend of a music aficionado whose past is as mysterious as the  ghostly visitors to his Manhattan apartment; Elizabeth Hand’s visionary and shocking  “Cleopatra Brimstone”; Thomas Ligotti’s brilliant, mind-stretching “Notes on the  Writing of Horror: A Story”; and “Body,” Brian Evenson’s disturbing twist on correctional  facilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Crossing boundaries and packed with imaginative chills, \u003ci\u003ePoe’s Children \u003c\/i\u003ebears all the telltale signs of fearless, addictive fiction.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49339709718832,"sku":"BDav47","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/328277-av47-Square.jpg?v=1734027900","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-av47","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}