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    At the Gates of Madness
    At the Gates of Madness
    At the Gates of Madness
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    At the Gates of Madness

    By Shaun Meeks

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    At the Gates of Madness is a collection of short stories by Shaun Meeks. Here you will find a man facing his mistakes in "The Edge of the Abyss", horror comes to a shopping mall and Robin finds that "You Can't Always Run Away", something is living in the dark waters of Lake Simcoe in "Simcoe Sally Ain't No Lady", two stoners face the end of the world in "When the Darkness Came", an old and lonely man hungers for his strange addiction in "Treats", in a small town diner there is a boy with a killer mullet in "The Tennessee Top Hat" and a boy must face his father's sins in "The Creek". The collection is packed with 18 stories of demons, killers, ghosts and revenge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShaun Meeks
    Release dateJul 11, 2013
    ISBN9781301341436
    At the Gates of Madness
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    Shaun Meeks

    Shaun Meeks lives in Toronto, Ontario with his partner, model and Burlesque performer, Mina LaFleur. Together they own and operate their company L'Atelier de LaFleur. Shaun has been writing for many years now and is a member of the Horror Writers Association. He is the author of Shutdown, The Gate at Lake Drive and the novelette, Down on the Farm. He has published over 50 short stories in various magazines and anthologies. He is the author of the collections At the Gates of Madness and Brother's Ilk (with James Meeks). He will also be featured in the upcoming anthologies and magazines including Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed, Demon Rum and other Evil Spirits, All That Remains and several more. Shaun will be releasing his latest novel, Maymon in 2015, along with a new collection of short fiction called Dark Reaches. For more information or to contact him, go to www.shaunmeeks.com.

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