In his striking debut collection, Greener Pastures, Michael Wehunt shows why he is a powerful new voice in horror and weird fiction/5(). One of the cuter, funnier memes doing the rounds in horror and dark fiction social media circles lately has been the Greener Pastures cover photobomb, where illustrator Michael Bukowski’s delightfully creepy jacket evocations of images and Things from the book crop up in all kinds of unexpected places. That pretty much sums up how pervasive Wehunt’s presence has become. Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt is a wonderful collection of short stories that creep their way out of the horror genre and into Southern Gothic and New Weird. Every single story creates and maintains its own sense of unease, while also building upon and blending into the overarching feeling that ties everything together, the visceral and oppressing wilderness.
Michael Wehunt lives in the lost city of Atlanta, where he wishes he had more time to read. His debut story collection, Greener Pastures, was shortlisted for the IAFA Crawford Award, nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award, and was recently translated into Spanish. His debut novel will soon be crawling out of the woods into the light. "Greener Pastures" is a short horror story by Michael Wehunt, one of 35 entries in the audio horror anthology Come Join Us by the Fire. A long haul trucker is faces down a lonesome night as mysterious voices on the radio lures unwary folk into a darkness from which they may never return. Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories. Greener Pastures, by Michael Wehunt. Paul StJohn Mackintosh. Oblique Strategies. Georgia native Michael Wehunt has quietly, almost unobtrusively made a name for himself as a major figure in modern dark and weird fiction, and this first collection of eleven of his stories sets the seal on that endeavor. To say that the book comes garlanded with.
Greener Pastures by Michael Wehunt is a wonderful collection of short stories that creep their way out of the horror genre and into Southern Gothic and New Weird. Every single story creates and maintains its own sense of unease, while also building upon and blending into the overarching feeling that ties everything together, the visceral and oppressing wilderness. Welcome to the online home of author Michael Wehunt. Here you’ll find my latest news, announcements, and musings. My fiction tends to the darker end of the spectrum, but the only true constant is a love of the literary, words strung in a line, be it the beauty of regular old life or old things that shouldn’t be scratching at the inside of the closet door. Michael Wehunt's Greener Pastures is an exquisite collection. The stories capture melancholy, loneliness, grief, regret, and those twin horrors; that the world is not what it once seemed, and that the world is actually as bad as we always quietly feared it would be.
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