Bøger af Ralph Robert Moore

Behind You is the latest collection from Ralph Robert Moore, two-time nominee for Best Story of the year by the British Fantasy Society (2013 and 2016). 18 stories and novelettes. 400 pages, 110,000 words. What crawls after midnight on elbows and knees into hospital emergency rooms? Who hides in the woods waiting for hikers who get lost? How could a 90-year old woman get pregnant? What do you do when your girlfriend grows multiple noses and ears? Is a bird really a bird if it doesn't have any feathers or wings or head? Is there a ghost in your best friend's attic? Do dolls get cancer? Can sharks attack someone on a cobblestone street? Is it wise to have an affair with your dental hygienist? What should you do when you suddenly discover you are male, and have a penis? How do priests protect Latino boys from a young girl who likes to put her pet tarantula inside her mouth? Why are you so drawn to a red-haired computer nerd who is indifferent to your beauty? How does a middle-aged couple appearing together in Italo-Spanish-German low budget horror films maintain their relationship when the wife is now being cast in movies as a witch, while the husband still has sex scenes with actresses half his age? When your toilet tells you that you need to get a screening colonoscopy, can your toilet be trusted, especially when your life is being filmed every day by a reality TV crew? How dangerous, and in other situations quite useful, are bananas? How many versions of you and the love of your life exist? Is the world just one island, and endless ocean? What are you hiding, where are you hiding it, and are you willing to submit to a rectal exam? "Moore's work is consistently fascinating, original and devastating. His characters speak to you from whatever hell they inhabit, with clear, unambiguous voices." - Trevor Denyer

RRM always makes you think.--Des Lewis, Gestalt Real-Time ReviewsRoy took a deep breath. "There's something else.""You want me to have your babies?""No."Her face registered hurt surprise that he didn't laugh at her joke."While we were making love? I felt a small lump in your breast."She said nothing. Tilted her coffee cup towards her, saw it was empty. "Wait. What?""I felt a small lump in your breast." He pointed at her right breast. "Is that something you're already aware of?"She stared at him, eyes reddening."I didn't mention it at the time. For selfish reasons. And I thought maybe you already knew."She slipped her left hand under the top of her blouse."Do you want me to show you-""Shut up."He sat across from her at the small table, watching as her five fingers, underneath the front of her blouse, moved from one side of her right breast to the other.Anger and relief in her voice, she said, as her fingers kept pressing, "Son of a fucking bitch, Roy, if this is some kind of sick, fucking joke-"Her voice stopped.Her fingers stopped.Her dark eyes looked across the table at him.Fingers moving again under her blouse.In one spot.He could tell she was pressing against the lump with her fingertips, trying to gauge its submerged size, and to see if it was painful.Breathing Through My Nose documents eight cases in which Donald Duke entered someone's life.

"Best Novel 2015" - Dark Musings Awards When someone you love dies, are they gone forever? Meet the Ghosters, and the desperate people who hire them. In our modern world, only Ghosters know what comes after death. What stays behind. And what dwells between. Ghosters are a small, loosely-connected group of individuals who travel the highways of America curing people of their hauntings. For as much money as they can negotiate from each client. They are legitimate. But they are not nice. Here are the known Ghosters: Stan Costello. Works with Bud Hardy. Their specialty is buying and selling bottled ghosts. For the right price, they'll bottle a fresh ghost. Clay (last name unknown). Homely. Cold. All the food he eats tastes like mud. The apparent leader of the Ghosters. Handles the more frightening cases. Tilda Clem. Six foot seven. Never fit in anywhere. Somewhat sympathetic to the people she takes on. But not much. Patrick Kelly. Tall Irishman with an onion-shaped head. Along with Stan and Bud, maybe the most human of the Ghosters. Will never say a bad word about anyone. But a lot of blood on his big hands. Matt (last name unknown). Young African-American traveling with Patrick as an apprentice, to see if he'll fit in with the group. He has the talent. But does he have the stomach? Imagine a building where only the top two floors are haunted (and the bottom two floors are a thriving shopping mall); a haunted doll house inside an otherwise unpossessed home; family estates that are hundreds of houses long, each new house attached to the front of the previous one, the older homes disappearing into the swamps like a centipede; a haunted house that travels across America. Imagine ghosts that can only manifest in water (like the inside of your dishwasher, or your shower stall); ghosts who believe they're still alive, pay their mortgage each month, and can interact with others; bottled ghosts that are bought and sold like vintage Coca-Cola signs; ghosts that have to share a crowded space within an animal. If you thought life was complicated, find out what death is like. There are neeks, plums, siliths, smudges, flesh ghosts, spirit ghosts, prayer ghosts, inbreeding ghosts, and that great white shark swimming in the sea between life and afterlife, The Fear Ghost. The stories comprising this 95,000 word novel are ten known cases in which Ghosters were involved. What the critics are saying: "I loved every single page of it, not least for the wealth of incidental detail and the assured way in which Moore so often circles around the crux of each story, slowly dragging it out into the light of day, letting us see and experience what is really at stake. It does for ghosts what his novel As Dead As Me did for zombies, with bells on." - Peter Tennant "The ghosts are startlingly original creations from the mind of one of the most accomplished writers in the field...The solutions to the hauntings are spectacularly horrifying. [Moore] seamlessly fuses these elements with a genuinely sympathetic understanding of character and personal tragedy that propels this collection into the literary stratosphere" - Trevor Denyer "Ghosters...are members of a small group who travel around America "curing" people of their hauntings...There's a lot of humour in this book but there's also real horror...[Moore] manages to invest all his characters with real personality and depth. [He]...is an extremely imaginative writer, coming up with some truly original ideas. I sincerely hope the world he's created here is one the author will return to in future publications. It's a book I urge you to buy." - Anthony Watson

"It is easy to see why Father Figure has become an underground classic over the years. It is a dark, extremely disturbing but completely gripping suspense thriller with a strongly erotic subtext...Moore is an extremely talented writer with a gift for pushing the reader's emotional buttons...certainly liable to become a cult classic, and deservedly so." -Editorial Review South of Anchorage, accessible only from a muddy road off Seward Highway, lies the town of Lodgepole, Alaska. After midnight, among the blueberry bushes of White Birch Park, a man crawls on top of a woman and begins making love to her. As her orgasm rises he puts his hands around her throat, shutting off her air. She struggles, not to stop him, but to stop herself from trying instinctively to pull his hands off her throat. As the top joints of his thumb meet at the front of her throat she comes, her cry of orgasm ricocheting around inside her forever. Daryl Putnam, handsome, bookish, wakes up from a nightmare and decides to do something he hasn't done in years. Take a walk outside at night. Down in the park, at the lime green shores of Little Muncho Lake, he comes across the body of the strangled woman. The next morning, at the coffee shop of the hospital where he works, Daryl meets Sally, a pretty, dark-haired girl. He's intelligent, she's outgoing. What they have in common is both are living lonely lives. Until today. Also in the hospital coffee shop, shaking half a can of black pepper onto his tomato soup, is Sam Rudolph, a fiftyish man with eyes like an angry dog, who has spent over twenty years quietly manipulating events in Daryl and Sally's lives to have this seemingly chance encounter among the three of them occur. And who is actually a lot older than fifty.

"Moore's work is consistently fascinating, original and devastating. His characters speak to you from whatever hell they inhabit, with clear, unambiguous voices." - Trevor DenyerRalph Robert Moore is back with 20 Horror/Weird/Slipstream stories and novelettes in Our Elaborate Plans. 550 pages, 160,000 words.A boy who likes digging holes and has a little sister who adores him, and a mother who is dying.Someone who while urinating feels a lump on one of his testicles.A magician and his monkey assistant, who absolutely adores him, and a top hat that allows him to pull out all sorts of unexpected objects.A man who comes back after peeing in the middle of the night to his bedroom and finds a strange woman in bed where his wife had been.An old man journeys to an abandoned factory in upstate Michigan to an unusual safari where the wildlife driven past isn't animals, but ghosts.A young boy who has to go in for some medical tests, and a neurotic woman who 'meets' him years later.What happens when a wife realizes her older husband is showing signs of dementia?How do you cope when a noise from the sky keeps getting louder and louder, causing more and more people to lose their sense of hearing?What are you willing to do to appear in a porno as a way to escape working as a short-order cook for a racist employer?What happens when you rehearse lines in an abandoned model home for an upcoming part and a stranger shows up?How do you cope when the ghost of your dead dog keeps nipping at you?Is it really safe to visit with the father of a girl you just met in his workplace far under the Hudson River?A man who starts following a woman who likes to insert herself into wedding photographs at the local park.Someone who has to deal with little men running like cockroaches across his ceiling.An old man who's woken at night by naked men barking behind his backyard's fences, pretending they're dogs.A man in a wheelchair who wants to bring his lover, seated in a chair in his motel room with a blanket over his body, back to life.Is it really a good idea for two boys who watch a TV show that gradually gives directions on how to reach a secret house hidden in the woods to seek out that house?Have you really considered all the precautions you need to take when a freak snowstorm blows through Texas?What could possibly go wrong when you take your kids and your second wife on a vacation in the islands?When you see something pass by outside the front glass of an ice cream shop, why do you go to the restaurant's restroom, lock yourself inside a stall, get down on your knees, and start slapping your forehead down on the porcelain edge of the toilet?

"We used to finish each other's sandwiches."Harry and Edna are a middle-aged married couple who probably did love each other when they were young and just starting out, but now maybe don't any longer? Or possibly still do, in some ways? It's so hard to tell sometimes, with people who have shared their lives for so many years.Harry, a big, angry, disappointed man with a sarcastic sense of humor, flips houses for a living in the greater Dallas area, buying run-down homes, supervising his crew as they go in and renovate the properties, reviving them so they're once again a thing of beauty.Edna, his wife, has become increasingly promiscuous, and has had to undergo more and more invasive surgeries to try to eliminate an infection that has taken hold in her body.The Angry Red Planet is a sad, funny, scary exploration of the changing relationship between a man and a woman, and the daily social irritations that slowly grind them down, like they grind all of us down.About Ralph Robert MooreRalph Robert Moore, nominated twice for Best Story of the Year by the British Fantasy Society (2013 and 2016), has been published in America, Canada, England, Ireland, France, India and Australia in a wide variety of genre and literary magazines and anthologies, including Black Static, Shadows & Tall Trees, Nightscript, Midnight Street, Chizine, and Sein und Werden.His books include the novels Father Figure, As Dead As Me, and Ghosters; and the short story collections Remove the Eyes, I Smell Blood, You Can Never Spit It All Out, and Behind You."Moore's work is consistently fascinating, original and devastating. His characters speak to you from whatever hell they inhabit, with clear, unambiguous voices."-Trevor Denyer"[Moore's] work is not quite like that of anybody else. He is a true original."-Peter Tennant"Moore's...work is always heartfelt, deep and superbly executed...a writer everybody with an interest in dark fiction should be reading."-Grim Reader Reviews"Disturbing. Nightmarish. Terrifying. And above all, original...reinforces his reputation, amongst those in the know, that here we have a genre-storytelling giant in our midst."-AJ Kirby"Moore's writing is consistently powerful, his descriptions (even of the smallest minutia) terrifically rendered. He is not afraid to tap into his darkest imaginings and to go places most writers might very well shy away from. Indeed, he is one of the most singularly powerful authors I've encountered in a long, long while..."-C.M. Muller

10 horror novelettes by Ralph Robert Moore. 400 pages. 120,000 words. Includes "Dirt Land", nominated in 2016 for Best Story of the Year by the British Fantasy Society. "[Moore's] work is not quite like that of anybody else. He is a true original." --Peter Tennant Children born with four feet. A man physically attached to three other men. A pushy waitress. A woman who dresses up as Santa Claus on Halloween. An off-campus NYC apartment overrun with tiny, crawling faces. A tomato with spikes sticking out of its red skin. A third rate stand-up comic who insists he isn't gay. A lonely woman who constructs a tabletop village of miniature buildings wherever she moves. A widow who's visited by God in a dream, singing instructions to her about the structure He wants her to build. A psychiatry student who has to convince a handcuffed serial rapist to sit on a toilet seat to reconnect with his childhood. "Moore's work is consistently fascinating, original and devastating. His characters speak to you from whatever hell they inhabit, with clear, unambiguous voices." --Trevor Denyer Featuring 3 novelettes from Black Static, "Dirt Land", "Kebab Bob" and "Drown Town"; 3 novelettes from Midnight Street, "They Hide in Tomatoes", "Nobody I Knew", and "Suddenly the Sun Appeared"; 1 novelette from Hellfire Crossroads, "She Has Maids", and 3 novelettes never before published, "During the Time I Was Out", "Imperfect Boy", and "Boyfriend". "Up on the mountain, not everything that gets born is human. Or at least, human enough. That's just the way it is. Some of them are kept, if they look close enough, but a lot are taken down to the river before they get big, and drowned. Shaken out of a blanket. If you go downstream, you'll find all kinds of dead babies bumping against the gray river rocks. Stiff limbs, open mouths. Getting picked at by fish. Of course, up on the mountain, the people who live there catch that fish, like they catch all fish. Fry it. Eat it. That may be part of the problem." --Opening paragraph of "Dirt Land" "Tired of the usual suspects? Bored with the same old genre cliches? Then follow my advice and read Ralph Robert Moore, a hell of a writer whose work is provocative and refreshing, never ordinary, always imaginative and graced by a compelling narrative style...Try him, you won't regret it." --Mario Guslandi "Disturbing. Nightmarish. Terrifying. And above all original...we have a genre-storytelling giant in our midst. --A.J. Kirby

I Smell Blood features eight stories by Ralph Robert Moore, plus his short horror novel Kid. Almost 100,000 words of fiction. Moore's stories have been published in America, England, Ireland and Australia. His first short story collection, Remove the Eyes, was long-listed by the British Fantasy Society as the Best Short Story Collection of 2009. British writer/critic Peter Tennant said of Remove the Eyes, "I can't recommend this collection highly enough." Italian critic Mario Guslandi wrote, "Moore... conceives original plots, creates credible characters and makes them speak plausible dialogues, and, most of all, is a terrific storyteller. Try him, you won't regret it." British editor/publisher/writer Trevor Denyer described Remove the Eyes as, "Unusual, erotic, frightening and stunningly good." Peter Tennant and Ellen Datlow both listed Remove the Eyes as one of the notable short story collections of 2009.

As Dead As Me is a first person account of the zombie apocalypse from its beginning to its end. The dead are rising. As America falls, Jack and several other survivors are rescued by Army patrol and taken by ship to a remote island off Indonesia where, under the leadership of the Colonel, they'll try to rebuild the human race. That effort involves dangerous military forays, including an assault on an oil tanker infested with the dead, to have a generation's worth of fuel for the island; and a long train journey up the Asian continent to rescue a group of humans holed up in a women's prison. Part military novel, part adventure story, part horror tale, As Dead As Me follows a group of desperate men and women who try to be strong enough, organized enough, and brave enough, to take back the world. If they don't succeed, mankind is extinct.