DOORWAYS TO THE DEADEYE
Eric J. Guignard’s Doorways to the Deadeye isn’t just a magnificent, magical, mystical epic; it’s really a long, hard look into the heart of the myth of America. With this, his first novel, Eric has crafted an extraordinary tale that will haunt readers long after they finish it. —Six-time Bram Stoker Award ®-winning author Lisa Morton
Rich, strange, and wonderful, as if Stephen King and Ray Bradbury were sitting together weaving a tale over a camp fire. So good I didn’t want it to end.” —Michael Marshall Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Spares, The Anomaly, and The Straw Men trilogy
Concerned with everything horror should be concerned about—history, poverty, language, loneliness, the liminal spaces between places where people vanish and stories flourish—Doorways to the Deadeye is a hundred old-school railroad tales reconfigured by Eric J. Guignard into something new, strange, haunting, and haunted. This is a ride worth hopping, and it will take you somewhere you really haven’t been.” —Glen Hirshberg, Shirley Jackson and International Horror Guild Award-winning author of the Motherless Children trilogy
Luke Thacker is a drifting hobo in Depression-era America, riding the rails of the nation and surviving by crumbs and hope. Along the way, he learns the iconography of transients—the Hobo Code—better than anyone else, and deciphers a secret that thrusts him into Athanasia, the middle ground of memories.
Here he learns that all around us is the realm of the deadeye, where the deceased persevere by how they are remembered. The memories Luke meets will do anything to never be forgotten, whether by trickery, violence, or daring.
Luke learns, too, that what’s remembered yesterday is not always the same as what will be remembered tomorrow, and he sets off to keep alive the memories of those he loves in the way a ’bo does best: telling tales of old legends, and making up new ones alike.
Now, fifty years later, the tall crossbucks of Luke Thacker are repeated by homeless King Shaw, who’s struggling to keep Luke’s own legend alive and with it, perhaps, his own.
’Cause it don’t matter if you rob banks with a dead John Dillinger, are hunted over the years by vengeful Earp brothers, or go against the monstrous railroad guard Smith McCain: when a story is told, all who are part of it become a little stronger.
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Product Details:
Author: Eric J. Guignard
Publication Date: July 26, 2019
Price:
Paperback: $18.95 plus $3.00 shipping, handling and sales tax. Total Price $21.95
Electronic: $7.95
Print Length: 318 pages
Publisher: JournalStone