Stone Gods

Stone Gods features 15 stories of lives and places set askew, suffused with nightmarish dread somewhere between the literary horror of Lisa Tuttle or Ramsey Campbell, and the films of David Lynch. In "Stone Head", a man waiting for his family to return home finds his world and himself changed by the appearance of a strange monument in his backyard. In "The Great Blind God Passed Through Us," a girl visits her family's hometown, where justice demands the observance of old customs. In "Wild Dogs", strange animals stalk a man whose night on the town goes from bad to worse. In "Open Houses", a skater dares himself to ride through a cemetery, only to find within it a strange replica of his own home.Praise for Stone Gods:“Golaski’s exploration of the human experience through the supernatural is immersive and self-exploratory. The final story, ‘A Rainbow Summer,’ employs storytelling itself as a potent instrument. A father breathes life into the animals in Noah’s Ark, masterfully capturing the very essence of Stone Gods and what Golaski achieves within these memorable, sharply crafted stories.”- Publishers Weekly (A BookLife Editor’s Pick)“In measured prose, Golaski’s work recalls that of H.P. Lovecraft with surreal shades of Leonora Carrington’s or Silvina Ocampo’s work. Logic goes out the window in these atmospheric, symbolic tales. A celebration of the strange, cleverly told across stylistic forms.”- Kirkus “Adam Golaski is an original… The strangeness of his fiction is palpable as we journey seamlessly from an ordinary world intensely described to hallucinogenic hells and then back again… These tales are masterful explorations into alienation and disconnection.” — Steve Rasnic Tem, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Ubo and The Man on the Ceiling (with Melanie Tem)“Adam Golaski’s Stone Gods is an essential entry into the modern canon of the strange story. With hypnotic prose and bold stylistic strokes, these stories poke holes through reality’s thin spaces, destabilizing the dream of normalcy and letting the unknowable peer inside. By turns unsettling, horrifying, and beguiling, there is no safe space inside these pages or — once you’ve read Stone Gods — outside of them either.”– Gordon B. White, author of As Summer’s Mask Slips, And Other Disruptions “Adam Golaski’s Stone Gods is a subversive distillation of literary dexterity and allegory, both personal and universal. By the time we notice one of life’s anomalies, readers will find that Golaski has already captured it, placed it under a cerebral bell jar, and altered his specimen into something both instructive and alchemically unconventional.”— Clint Smith, author of The Skeleton Melodies