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ZOOPRAXIS, the latest collection from#1 bestselling author R.C. Matheson.
ZOOPRAXIS gathers stories of dread, menace and the surreal — with a distilled style that is fierce and hypnotic. From prisoners executed with a hi-tech twist, to the ravages of empathy, an uncooperative parrot, a shapeshifter’s carnal diary, a man who can’t stop talking, a murderer devoured by ice, to a romantic embalming machine, a bizarre Infomercial, and a mind-bending Swami.
ZOOPRAXIS includes 35 stories (13 new to this edition, 5 appearing for the first time), along with Introductions from John Shirley and Chet Williamson, and Afterwords from illustrator Harry O. Morris and R.C. Matheson.
STORIES IN THE COLLECTION:
- How to Edit
- 133
- Transfiguration
- Infomercial!!!
- Shrapnel
- Golden Time
- Dead to Me
- Listen
- Making Cabinets
- Dream
- Candy Mountain
- New Tricks
- Venturi
- Swami
- Demise
- Sea of Atlas
- Kriss Kross Applesauce
- The Embalming Machine
- Slain Lions
- Bulimia
- Pronoia
- Slaves of Nowhere
- Man’s Best Friend
- Fan Letter
- Last Words
- Ground Zero
- Interrogation
- Felicia
- Evil Twins, Temporary Blindness, Bikers, and Amnesia
- Bedtime Story
- Gone
- Murderers
- Heal
- Cry
- The Talking Man
R.C. Matheson is an acclaimed screenwriter/producer for film and television and the author of over 125 short stories featured in the award-winning collections SCARS and Other Distinguishing Marks (introduced by Stephen King), and #1 bestseller DYSTOPIA. His novels and novellas include CREATED BY, THE RITUAL OF ILLUSION and BOMBYX.
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ZOOPRAXIS by R.C. Matheson
Publication Date: July 4, 2025
Suggested Retail Price: $30
Hardcover - 296 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8430552626
Dimensions: 6.24 x 0.93 x 9.24 inches
ZOOPRAXIS by R.C. Matheson
Publication Date: July 4, 2025
Suggested Retail Price: $20
Trade Paperback - 296 pages
ISBN-13: 979-8648479128
Dimensions: 6 x 0.74 x 9 inches
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“There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a spectacular view and you also get to look at it from the backseat of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. In the field of fantasy those writers . . . are even rarer. Theodore Sturgeon, early Ray Bradbury and R.C. Matheson. He is remarkable . . . a brilliant chip off the old block.” — Stephen King
“If the reputation of writers were based on quality rather than quantity, Richard Christian Matheson would be the pre-eminent contemporary writer in the field of dark fiction.” — Chet Williamson
“Richard Christian Matheson is one of a handful of resourceful, fear-minded authors helping to create a new sensibility in horror fiction that is as frightening and merciless as the modern world itself.” — ROLLING STONE
“A great horror writer.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Similes and metaphors so engaging and deeply descriptive it puts me to shame. I have been writing for over forty years and in my own opinion have never written anything as complex or darkly interesting. I stand in awe of Richard’s impressive talent; his unbelievable ability to slam a verb up against a noun, putting words and thoughts together in ways never intended. But somehow, every time he ends up with nuanced perfection and excels magnificently. I’m jealous.” — Stephen J. Cannell: bestselling novelist, writer, producer and creator of THE ROCKFORD FILES, BARETTA, THE A-TEAM, and WISEGUY
“R.C. is a master of compression. He knows how to catch a moment in words and convey it straight to the reader’s head or heart; often both. Devastating.” — Clive Barker
“While I am talking, he is rounding the bases with another home run. His imagination simply cannot stop.” — Ray Bradbury
“Imagine a Rosetta microchip. Compact, succinct, precise. Universes in there. R.C.’s stories are like a drop of biowar culture. Like a speck of neutron star that weighs a million tons. Start reading. You’re already behind.” — David J. Schow
