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    Exploring Dark Short Fiction #4: A Primer to Jeffrey Ford
    Exploring Dark Short Fiction #4: A Primer to Jeffrey Ford
    Exploring Dark Short Fiction #4: A Primer to Jeffrey Ford
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    Exploring Dark Short Fiction #4: A Primer to Jeffrey Ford

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    Author of the fantastic and the bizarre, Jeffrey Ford’s work has won awards and acclaim across the globe for his stories of humor, horror, and unconventional beauty. “Powerful and disturbing in the best possible way” (Gawker) and “Intensely engaging” (Publishers Weekly), Ford crosses speculative ge

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    PublisherDark Moon Books
    Release dateSep 9, 2019
    ISBN9780998938394
    Exploring Dark Short Fiction #4: A Primer to Jeffrey Ford
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    Jeffrey Ford

    Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, the Edgar Award–winning The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, The Shadow Year, and The Twilight Pariah, and his collections include The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, and A Natural History of Hell. He lives near Columbus, Ohio, and teaches writing at Ohio Wesleyan University.

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