![]() Whether a Greater Ventriloquist or not, he has written a first book that speaks with a distinctive, unsettling voice." -John Langan, author of The Fisherman " The Secret of Ventriloquism notes that Jon Padgett has himself been a practicing ventriloquist. This volume is jam-packed with the stuff that nightmares are made of." ![]() There's no gristle, no bone, no dilly-dallying here:only pure meat whose terrors seamlessly grow into the metaphysical. "Padgett proves with his stunning debut collection to be a worthy successor to Thomas Ligotti. In a year of exceptional weird fiction, this is a mattock-handle-wrapped-in-barbed-wire heavy hitter." Some of Padgett's lines raised the hair on my neck. " The Secret of Ventriloquism is horror with a capital H. Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock. Sure, going in, I was already afraid of ventriloquist dummies, but now I'm deathly afraid of Jon Padgett." The interconnected short stories are ghastly,clever, dryly witty, but also genuinely and bone-rattlingly creepy and disturbing. ![]() "Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism is a horror revelation. Winner of the Golden Ghoul Award for Fiction (Foreign). ![]() Selected as the Best Fiction Book of the Year by Rue Morgue Magazine As a professional ventriloquist himself, the author is well-acquainted with dummies' uncanny creepiness." ![]() "This dread-soaked volume - stocked with tales of decay, death and dummies - is the debut collection from Padgett. ![]()
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