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Description: Set in a post - industrial landscape of the present the near future and the imagined Joel Lane's seminal collection The Lost District explores human encounters with the unknown: sexual discovery drug - inspired visions the lonely paths of madness and the shadow realms on the other side of death. A neighbourhood fades into corrupt echoes of itself; a porn actor's scars reveal the forces controlling his life; a musician is haunted by the madness of a deceased singer; and a man literally follows his ex - lover to the end of the world. Ranging from grim urban horror to strange erotic fantasies to bitter allegories of loss and exploitation the stories in The Lost District link the hidden places in the urban and small - town landscapes to the secret spaces inside all of us. First published in the US a in 2006, and long out - of - print The Lost District has never been published in the UK until now further enforcing Joel Lane's reputation as one of the most significant and distinctive British writers of the weird.
Title: The Lost District
Author(s): Lane Joel
Publisher: Influx Press
Barcode: 9781910312186
Publication Date: 5/9/2024
Category: Short Stories
Description: Set in a post - industrial landscape of the present the near future and the imagined Joel Lane's seminal collection The Lost District explores human encounters with the unknown: sexual discovery drug - inspired visions the lonely paths of madness and the shadow realms on the other side of death. A neighbourhood fades into corrupt echoes of itself; a porn actor's scars reveal the forces controlling his life; a musician is haunted by the madness of a deceased singer; and a man literally follows his ex - lover to the end of the world. Ranging from grim urban horror to strange erotic fantasies to bitter allegories of loss and exploitation the stories in The Lost District link the hidden places in the urban and small - town landscapes to the secret spaces inside all of us. First published in the US a in 2006, and long out - of - print The Lost District has never been published in the UK until now further enforcing Joel Lane's reputation as one of the most significant and distinctive British writers of the weird.
Title: The Lost District
Author(s): Lane Joel
Publisher: Influx Press
Barcode: 9781910312186
Publication Date: 5/9/2024
Category: Short Stories