Electric Castles: A Book of Urban Legends
By Cliff Burns
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Fifteen short stories set in real or imagined cities, original and diverse tales touching on a variety of genres, including crime fiction and dark fantasy.
Satirical, unrelenting, compelling, ELECTRIC CASTLES: A BOOK OF URBAN LEGENDS is literary fiction of the highest order, an intimate examination of the toll modernity places on individuals struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile and unforgiving environment, while doing their best to maintain their dignity and essential humanity.
For over thirty years, Canadian author Cliff Burns has thrilled and challenged readers with a distinctively personal, intimate approach to writing, his work earning praise for its intensity and ingenuity. His novels, short stories and poetry seek to describe the experiences and motivations of outsiders and underdogs, people condemned to the margins of society by circumstance and cruel fate.
Cliff Burns
I've been a professional writer for over thirty-five years and have 16 books and well over 100 published short stories to my credit (including 15 major anthology appearances).In 2023, I wrote and produced "Standing At an Angle to the Universe", a ten-part podcast devoted to books, literature and the writing life (available on Spotify, Podbean, etc.).A partial list of my titles: SO DARK THE NIGHT, ELECTRIC CASTLES, DISLOYAL SON and THE LAST HUNT.Two of my books have been shortlisted for national independent press prizes and my work has earned praise from reviewers and readers around the world, including STRANGE ADVENTURES (U.K.) who wrote: "At last Canada has a literary equivalent of David Cronenberg!"All of my novels and collections are available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble...or (preferably) can be ordered through your favourite local independent book shop.
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