Black Pockets
by George Zebrowski
In this masterful collection of horror stories, George Zebrowski divides these nineteen tales into Personal, Political, and Metaphysical terrors?stories to scare you individually, stories to frighten you as a social animal, and stories that should terrify the entire human race. In ìI Walked with Fidel,î a young man encounters a once politically powerful zombie; ìJumperî focuses on a young woman with a dark and troubled past; while in ìThe Coming of Christ the Joker,î the light-hearted banter of a celebrity TV talk show becomes something far more serious. ìA Piano Full of Dead Spidersî is an eerie story of genius, its demands, and its delusions; in ìPassing Nights,î the truth behind a recurring nightmare is revealed; ìThe Soft Terrible Musicî depicts a man who must hide his past even from himself. And in the title story, the novella ìBlack Pockets,î Zebrowski asks: What happens to a man when his desire for revenge becomes all-consuming...