Cimarron Street Books is pleased to bring you ZOOPRAXIS, the latest collection from #1 bestselling author R.C. Matheson. ZOOPRAXIS gathers stories of dread, menace and the surreal — with a distilled style that is fierce and hypnotic. From prisoners executed with a hi-tech twist, to the ravages of empathy, an uncooperative parrot, a shapeshifter’s carnal diary, a man who can’t stop talking, a murderer devoured by ice, to a romantic embalming machine, a bizarre Infomercial, and a mind-bending Swami.
ZOOPRAXIS includes 35 stories (13 new to this edition, 5 appearing for the first time), along with Introductions from John Shirley and Chet Williamson, and Afterwords from illustrator Harry O. Morris and R.C. Matheson.
STORIES IN THE COLLECTION:
• How to Edit
• 133
• Transfiguration
• Infomercial!!!
• Shrapnel
• Golden Time
• Dead to Me
• Listen
• Making Cabinets
• Dream
• Candy Mountain
• New Tricks
• Venturi
• Swami
• Demise
• Sea of Atlas
• Kriss Kross Applesauce
• The Embalming Machine
• Slain Lions
• Bulimia
• Pronoia
• Slaves of Nowhere
• Man’s Best Friend
• Fan Letter
• Last Words
• Ground Zero
• Interrogation
• Felicia
• Evil Twins, Temporary Blindness, Bikers, and Amnesia
• Bedtime Story
• Gone
• Murderers
• Heal
• Cry
• The Talking Man
R.C. Matheson is an acclaimed screenwriter/producer for film and television and the author of over 125 short stories featured in the award-winning collections SCARS and Other Distinguishing Marks (introduced by Stephen King), and #1 bestseller DYSTOPIA. His novels and novellas include CREATED BY, THE RITUAL OF ILLUSION and BOMBYX.
“Imagine a Rosetta microchip. Compact, succinct, precise. Universes in there. R.C.’s stories are like a drop of biowar culture. Like a speck of neutron star that weighs a million tons. Start reading. You’re already behind.” — David J. Schow
“There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a spectacular view and you also get to look at it from the backseat of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. In the field of fantasy those writers . . . are even rarer. Theodore Sturgeon, early Ray Bradbury and R.C. Matheson. He is remarkable . . . a brilliant chip off the old block.” — Stephen King
“If the reputation of writers were based on quality rather than quantity, Richard Christian Matheson would be the pre-eminent contemporary writer in the field of dark fiction.” — Chet Williamson
