Cold To the Touch

Contains six interior illustrations from artist J.D. Busch

There is a cold that cannot be imagined, a chill so deep it turns blood to ice, cracks flesh, tears meat from bone. It is the horror of our own reality, the terrifying curse of our own survival. Can you feel it creeping down your spine?

Simon Strantzas, author of the mesmerizing Beneath the Surface and brilliant Nightingale Songs, brings his critically-acclaimed and long out-of-print collection back to find a whole new audience. In these thirteen strange and dark tales, you will find vacationers on the edge of forever, lonely pilgrims searching for answers, the dying reminded of all they have lost and all they have yet to lose. Strantzas's fiction is a haunting echo across the barren Arctic tundra, and once you hear its howl you will never forget the sound.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Reggie Oliver
• Under the Overpass
• The Other Village
• The Uninvited Guest
• A Seed on Barren Ground
• Writing on the Wall
• A Chorus of Yesterdays
• The Sweetest Song
• Pinholes in the Black Muslin
• Fading Light
• Poor Stephanie
• Like Falling Snow
• Here’s to the Good Life
• Cold to the Touch
• Afterword by Simon Strantzas

Lettered: Leather-bound Deluxe Lettered Hardcover w/slipcase: lettered A-Z, 6''x9'', bound in leather, signature page which is signed by both author and artist, front cover stamped and spine stamped with the title and the author's name, includes end papers, colored book ribbon with a full colored header, 60lb. natural vellum stock, a slipcase and dust jacket. Only twenty-six copies are ever produced and lettered worldwide and sold out at the publisher