Children of No One E-Book

Nicole Cushing

• Herausgeber: Independent Legions Publishing
• Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Sadism, nihilism, poverty, wealth, screams, whimpers, sanity and madness collide in Nowhere, Indiana. For Thomas Krieg, Nowhere is a miles-long, pitch-black underground maze in which he's imprisoned dozens of boys for the past ten years—all in the name of art. For two brothers, Nowhere is the only place they clearly remember living. A world unto itself, in which they must stay alert to stay alive. A world from which the only escape is death. But for an English occultist known only as Mr. No One, Nowhere is much more...and much less: the perfect place in which to perform a ritual to unleash the grandest of eldritch deities, the God of Nothingness, the Great Dark Mouth.

"It has been years since I've read a novella as mesmerizing, disturbing, and unique as this.  The supernatural, psychological, and emotional elements are so tightly intertwined that you never really know where reality begins and the dark elements begin."
— Gary A. Braunbeck,

“The confidence and expertise so blatantly evident in Nicole Cushing’s writing is astonishing. To make the reader wonder just how a particular work could have been conceived is the height of artistry. And Children of No One instills this wonder indeed. At the same time, it presents art as a vehicle for the grossest inhumanity, something that both hypnotizes and appalls. Ultimately, however, the source of the story’s dread is life itself, as the author explicitly announces late in the narrative, too late for those who by force or fancy must play its awful game.”
—Thomas Ligotti

Leseprobe

CHILDREN OF NO ONE

by Nicole Cushing

ISBN: 978-88-99569-70-9

Copyright (Edition) ©2017 Independent Legions Publishing

Copyright (Text) ©2013 Nicole Cushing

2° Edition - October, 2017

Cover Art by bymandesigns

Editing: Lucy A. Snyder

Digital Layout: Lukha B. Kremo

Nicole Cushing

CHILDREN OF NO ONE

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth

that wouldencompass the past and the future and in some way involve thestars.

—Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths”

As for the quality or characteristic of unholiness—this is also misleading,

a nominal facade designed to make thingsinteresting for a world born out ofblackness,

where nothing holy or unholy has ever existed…

where nothing exists at all except dreams and fevers and names for nothing: the creation, so to speak, of that original blackness

which pulls itself over every world like a hangman’s hood

over a condemned man’s head.

—Thomas Ligotti

TWOARGUING voices echo off the walls of Nowhere, Indiana: the voices of teenage boys, one a tenor who sometimes crosses the border to a baritone, the other a baritone who sometimes crosses the border to a bass. The topic of their current debate: the possible existence of light. There’s no evidence of it to be found, at present, but one of them raises the possibility it may have been there, once. A long, long time ago.