Let the Old Dreams Die

Description

A new collection of short stories from the Swedish master of the macabre, featuring a brief sequel to Let the Right One In. Customs officer Tina can smell a smuggler's guilt. Josef has a close encounter with Death - and discovers you can negotiate. Joel's apartment building is starting to...list. Wickedly imaginative, gleefully bloodthirsty, Let the Old Dreams Die features a classic Lindqvist cast of lovers, loners and losers. All flawed, all touched by the desire to be loved, all deeply human. Even some of those who are not human at all.

John Ajvide Lindqvist is the author of Let the Right One In, Handling the Undead, Harbour, Little Star and Let the Old Dreams Die.

'A magician of genre fiction...Lindqvist again trips along that thin high wire between supernatural devices and psychological verites.' Independent 'A delicate balance between macabre and moving.' Sunday Telegraph 'Some of his ideas are provoking enough to provide a satisfying squirm.' Courier-Mail 'A dangerously imaginative man.' Herald Sun 'Although Lindqvist reminds us of the way fear and hatred of the unfamiliar makes monsters of all of us, it is not fear and hatred he is interested in, but love and the way it binds us to one another.' -- James Bradley Australian 'There are two kinds of horror writers: those who have imagination and style in abundance, and the other kind. Lindqvist is firmly in the former; all you can do is look on and admire.' Sydney Morning Herald