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Out of Body: Stories

by Chris Vanjonack

Connected stories at the edges of life and reality

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Connected stories at the edges of life and reality

Out of Body brings together linked speculative horror stories that move across the multiverse, demonic attachment, and life after death. Its premises range from a ghost haunting his ex-girlfriend to a machine that claims to predict the best day of someone’s life, with uncanny encounters and small-town fears in between. Across these different situations, the supernatural is paired with recognizable concerns: grief, longing, dread, and human vulnerability. The collection’s variety gives its explorations of death and the infinite several distinct points of entry.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in linked collections of speculative horror stories.
  • Readers drawn to supernatural premises involving ghosts, demons, and life after death.
  • Readers who enjoy horror that also explores grief, longing, and human vulnerability.

Themes

Death and the afterlifeThe supernatural and the multiverseGrief and longingHuman vulnerability

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Book overview

"Chris Vanjonack's Out of Body is its own singularity. A dazzling collection where characters aren't bound to a single story, let alone a single universe. Teeming with haunts and heartbreak, this book will leave you breathless." -- Gus Moreno, author of This Thing Between Us

A wildly inventive collection of interconnected speculative stories--spanning the multiverse, demonic attachment, and life after death--from an electrifying new voice in fiction.

An aimless ghost haunts his ex-girlfriend for evidence that she's actually upset about his death.

A group of teens discovers a machine that purports to predict the best day of its users' lives.

A young woman is horrified to discover that an aggressive stranger she met on a night of bar-hopping now manifests in every photo that is taken of her.

A drunken posse descends into the woods in search of clowns that have been terrorizing their small town.

Chris Vanjonack's fiction is haunted not only by specters of death, but by the elusive questions of life, and above all, the wonder and horror of the infinite. Uncanny, surreal, and infectiously clever, the stories in this linked collection contain horrors great and small, fueled as much by the fantastic as by longing, dread, and all-too-human frailties.

Morbidly funny and brilliantly observed, Out of Body is an atmospheric, dead original feast for the senses.

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