Voice of the Stranger

"Eric Schaller's new story collection, Voice of a Stranger, is a wondrous curio cabinet of tales. His work as an author, illustrator of weird stories, and scientist draws a myriad of influences together and blends all the speculative genres with a smooth, descriptive style. The pacing is perfect from story to story, as the strange creeps, filters, leaps into these 14 fabulist fictions." - Jeffrey Ford, author of Big Dark Hole

"Be careful: reading Eric Schaller's collection opens a door to the fairy tale realm of the mythically eerie and meaningful...one that you may not find as easy to close." - Will Ludwigsen, author of Acres of Perhaps

"These unsettling fairy tales will linger in readers' minds." - Publishers Weekly

"This gruesome collection of short stories explores the perils and pleasures of encounters with the unknown." - Kirkus Reviews

Eric Schaller's fiction has appeared in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Fantasy: Best of the Year, The Time Traveler's Almanac, SciFiction, Postscripts, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Polyphony, New Genre, Shadows & Tall Trees, and others. Schaller's stories are influenced in part by his studies in the biological sciences, their inspiration, and the unease that originates in a world populated by many organisms-including humans-dependent on but also working at cross-purposes with each other.