Frequencies of Existence

Cover Artist: Ian Whates

Andrew Hook sees the world through a different lens. He takes often mundane things and coaxes the reader to find strangeness, beauty, and horror in their form; he colours the world in surreal shades and leads the reader down discomforting paths where nothing is quite as it should be.

Frequencies of Existence features twenty-four of the author’s finest stories, including four that are original to this collection.

In “Interference” we meet Matt, who sees the world in reverse and carries a hand mirror with him at all times in order to fit in, while “The Caged Sea” delivers a cross-cultural love story that culminates in a trip to Japan’s Aokigahara forest, famed as a suicide spot, where déjà vu and jamais vu collide. In “A Knot Of Toads” we visit the picturesque Lake District, where a most particular serial killer quietly plies their trade, and “The Abduction Of Europe” takes us on a pilgrimage, following in the footsteps of Salvador Dali. 

Contents:

• Your Golden Hands     
• The Universe At Gun Point  
• Kodokushi  
• A Knot of Toads  
• The Abduction of Europe   
• The Aniseed Gumball Kid
• Eskimo   
• The Last Mohican  
• Bullet
• A Life In Plastic   
• Burning Daylight
• Making Friends With Fold-Out Flaps
• The Frequency of Existence
• The Stench of Winter
• A Pageant of Clouds
• Always Forever Today
• The Caged Sea
• Interference
• Softwood
• My Naked Man
• Tokyo In Rain
• The Day My Heart Stood Still
• Drowning In Air
• White Matter
• About the Author

Lettered limited to 26 signed hardcover copies