A Man Totally Alone single work   short story   horror  
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 A Man Totally Alone
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Notes

  • Author's note:

    The title 'A Man Totally Alone' derives from the Nordic saga Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks konungs  and a passage translated by Todd B. Krause and Jonathan Slocum as:

    Foolish he seems to me, who goes there,
    a man totally alone, through dark night…

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    y separately published work icon The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories Stephen Jones (editor), New York (City) : Skyhorse Publishing , 2018 16785328 2018 anthology short story

    'Treat yourself to some very tricky stories! Halloween . . . All Hallows’ Eve . . . Samhain . . . Día de los Muertos . . . the Day the Dead Come Back . . . When the barriers between the worlds are at their weakest—when ghosts, goblins, and grisly things can cross over into our dimension—then for a single night each year the natural becomes the supernatural, the normal becomes the paranormal, and nobody is safe from their most intimate and terrifying fears.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

         New York (City) : Skyhorse Publishing , 2018
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