Full Do The Dead Dream? Cover (© F. P. Dorchak and Lon Kirschner, 2017)
Well, here it is! This is the final front and back cover to my 500-page anthology of the Weird and the Peculiar (on sale everywhere October 1st!)!
I am simply in awe of Lon Kirschner and his talents. The dude is amazing!
He added some cool gargoyle heads on the back, which fit in with my “The Girl Who Chased Gargoyles” story (on page 73). We also added some of the endorsements on the back (we took parts of Kevin Ikenberry’s and Julie Kazimer’s and put them on the back), with all of Dean Wyant’s there. The full blurbs from both Kevin’s and Julie’s are in the Front Matter.
I will be doing a matte cover this time. Lon recommended it, given the look of the cover, so I researched online to see the pros and cons of glossy v. matte, and it does indeed seem like matte is the way to go. Well, Lon is the expert, here!
And, since I’m showing off the cover endorsements, I’m also displaying the rest of them below. These people have been so kind and generous—I can’t thank all of you enough for your time, effort, and support! It means the world—both seen and unseen—to me! I’m so honored, thrilled, and humbled that these folks all thought enough of my work to lend me some of their words. To take the time to read it (wholly or partially—they are short stories, so I told folks they didn’t have to read each and every one to get a feel for the work)…and write something up.
So, the cover blurbs notwithstanding, the following are all inside the Front Matter. But…I am so freaking excited by these endorsements that I wanted to share them!
Do the dead dream?
“A collection that folds upon itself like a Möbius strip. A twisted landscape of the humane, the weird, and the fantastic.”
Mario Acevedo, Author, University of Doom
“Stylistically edgy and willing to muck around in the darker corners of life, the stories in Do The Dead Dream? are both bold and gritty. Readers looking to be soothed and reassured about the human condition, seek elsewhere.”
Mark Stevens, The Allison Coil Mystery Series
“F. P. Dorchak’s anthology—a collection of forty-five short stories—spans decades and showcases the author’s wide-ranging talent. With tales that are at turns engaging, suspenseful, twisty and often slyly humorous, Dorchak focuses his penetrating gaze on those things we too often take for granted—and makes us laugh or shiver in the doing. Reading Do the Dead Dream? takes you across a threshold into a Kafkaesque world where anything can happen; if Rod Serling were still on Planet Earth, he would be the first to offer his voice for the audio version.”
Barbara Nickless, The Sydney Parnell Mystery Series
“So reminiscent of the Twilight Zone! Imagine a story between light and shadow, between science fiction and superstition, between what you know about horror, and what horrors one can only imagine. Gritty and beautifully crafted, Do the Dead Dream? is the sort of collection readers will enjoy story after story.”
J.A. Kazimer, Author of CURSES!
“From the surreal to the all too real, F. P. Dorchak’s stories delve into the realms of the mind, otherworldly beings, loves lost, and the fickle nature of death. With a little bit of everything, this collection of stories will haunt readers long after they’ve closed the book.”
Shannon Lawrence, Short Story Author, Blogger, The Warrior Muse
“Do The Dead Dream? is a masterpiece. F. P. Dorchak effortlessly weaves the real and surreal into twisting, epically personal stories. “Etched In Stone” and “Tail Gunner” challenge what we know as real and yet are completely human tales of love, loss, and camaraderie with incredible resonance. This is a collection of the highest order from a supremely talented author.”
Kevin Ikenberry, The Protocol War Series
“F. P. Dorchak’s short stories take a look at the world in an inside-out, rarely visited way. These are neither happily-ever-after tales nor ghost stories solely meant to creep you out. They are worlds that can be deliciously understated like dreams of dreams, as enigmatic as time warps, and as unexpected as falling in all directions at once. We meet werewolves and undead and people whose past lives bleed through. These tales are nostalgia-meets-a-future with nighttime borders that hint something is not quite right, each one putting the reader in a graying state between sleep and wakefulness.”
Karen Albright Lin, WritersLaunchPad
“F. P. Dorchak blurs the lines between reality and the paranormal with his vast collection of unnerving tales that are sure to keep you up past midnight.”
Joshua Viola, Denver Post bestselling author
“From a dangerously precocious little girl who befriends gargoyles to a conventional guy who discovers (first hand) an invasion of mind-blowing creatures, F. P. Dorchak offers up a collection of horrifying short stories in Do The Dead Dream?, which he delivers with an inimitable, unique voice. The reader accompanies Dorchak’s characters’ bizarre experiences that manifest as rapid-fire flashes of thought-pandemonium…as would naturally occur under such unnatural circumstances. Just when you think the path is headed in an obvious direction, Dorchak jerks the road out from under your beliefs to find yourself suddenly drawn along a most unexpected thoroughfare.”
Jan C. J. Jones, Executive Producer/Writer, FOREST ROSE PRODUCTIONS, LLC, A Journey with Strange Bedfellows
“You may think you’ve read it all, but F. P Dorchak’s “Do the Dead Dream?” will test the limits of your imagination. Picture Stephen King as a mad scientist, mixing bits of Night Gallery with a generous helping of Black Mirror, a dash of Altered States, a pinch of metaphysics, and a healthy dose of surrealism. Dorchak takes you forward and backward in time, puts you in the cockpit of a plane, plunges you into the ocean, and ushers you into other realms you never expected. Buckle up for a unique and unforgettable ride.”
Paul Gallagher, Writer/Editor, Blogger, Shadow & Substance
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