Skidding Into Oblivion, Brian Hodge
Skidding Into Oblivion, Brian Hodge
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Skidding Into Oblivion

Author: Brian Hodge

Narrator: David Bendena

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2019


Synopsis

We each inhabit many worlds, often at the same time. From worlds on the inside, to the world on a cosmic scale. Worlds imposed on us, and worlds of our own making.
In time, though, all worlds will end. Bear witness:
After the death of their grandmother, two cousins return to their family’s rural homestead to find a community rotting from the soul outward, and a secret nobody dreamed their matriarch had been keeping.

The survivors of the 1929 raid on H.P. Lovecraft’s town of Innsmouth hold the key to an anomalous new event in the ocean, if only someone could communicate with them.

The ultimate snow day turns into the ultimate nightmare when it just doesn’t stop.

An extreme metal musician compels his harshest critic to live up to the hyperbole of his trolling.

With the last of a generation of grotesquely selfish city fathers on his deathbed, the residents of the town they doomed exercise their right to self-determination one last time.

As history repeats itself and the world shivers through a volcanic winter, a group gathers around the shore of a mountain lake to once again invoke the magic that created the world’s most famous monster.

With Skidding Into Oblivion, his fifth collection, award-winning author Brian Hodge brings together his most concentrated assortment yet of year’s best picks and awards finalists, with one thing in common:
It’s the end of the world as we know it . . . and we don’t feel fine at all.

About Brian Hodge

Brian Hodge is the award-winning author of ten novels of horror and crime/noir. He has also written over 100 short stories, novelettes, and novellas, and four full-length collections.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dr. Cat on November 05, 2022

Another collection of short fiction and another perfect score. Have I gone mad? Yes. But that's beside the bloody point. This has been a good year for reading short fiction. First there was Philip Fracassi's incredible BEHOLD THE VOID and the best book of 2021 (kiss my sweet tush Goodreads awards) BENE......more

Goodreads review by Audra (ouija.reads) on March 19, 2019

These stories don’t just skid into oblivion. I would say they run full-tilt, brake lines cut, plummeting off the edge with no chance of turning back. What glorious freedom in that end! Each story that Hodge creates is a full world of its own, crafted with the care of a full length novel, something tha......more

Goodreads review by Michelle {Book Hangovers} on February 17, 2021

Sadly, I don’t read a lot of short story collections.... and I think I need to change that, especially if there are more collections like this one. I thought this collection was EXCEPTIONAL!! I loved every single story. This is my first time reading any of Brian Hodge’s work and I am very intrigued!!......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 14, 2019

So many terrifying things about "Skidding Into Oblivion!" First, Mr. Hodge is a skilled horror writer, who can deliver the chills as well as the best in the genre. He has a sick imagination, and uses it well. Will I ever read a bleaker short story than "One Possible Shape of Things to Come?" If I do,......more

Goodreads review by Scotty on May 11, 2019

I never read short story collections like novels. I usually have three or four going at any given time, and I'm always sort of skipping back and forth between them. Even with collections by my favorite authors (H.P. Lovecraft, Gemma Files, John Langan, Shirley Jackson, etc.) and classics like King's......more