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Mystery lights : stories

Call Number

  • FICTION VALE (CEN, OSH)

Edition

First US edition.

Publication Information

Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2024.

Physical Description

239 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"An influencer attempts to derail a viral TV marketing campaign with her violent cult following. A marriage between two ghost hunters is threatened when one of them loses her ability to see spirits. The lives of a famous painter in the twilight of her career and a teenage UFO enthusiast converge when a mysterious glowing orb appears in their small desert town. And a slasher-flick screenwriter looking for inspiration escapes a pack of wild dogs only to find herself locked in an SUV with a strange man beside her. From the all-too-real horror of a sexual predator on a college campus to a lost sister transformed by cave-dwelling creatures, Lena Valencia's debut collection of stories, 'Mystery Lights', grapples with terrors both familiar and fantastic"--

Contents

  • Dogs
  • You can never be too sure
  • Mystery lights
  • The White place
  • Bright lights, big deal
  • Trogloxene
  • The Reclamation
  • Clean hunters
  • Reaper Ranch
  • Vermilion.