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Where You Live Paperback – November 28, 2013

by Gary McMahon (Author), Joe Mynhardt (Editor)
3.8 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
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Horror is everywhere, in the shadows and in the light. It takes on every shape, comes in every conceivable size. But most of all it’s right where you live. With the WHERE YOU LIVE short story collection, Gary McMahon delves into the depths of dark and brooding horror in every day events, objects, and the ghost of human nature. Horror is everywhere… It’s waiting behind a closed door, sitting in an ordinary chair, or following you on a country walk. Perhaps it’s washed up on a tranquil beach, hanging at a local skate park, recorded on an MP3 player hard drive, or even embedded somewhere deep within the design of something as simple and innocuous as a supermarket barcode. Includes: Just Another Horror Story Barcode The Row When One Door Closes The Chair Truth Hurts Down Sounds Weird The Table The Sheep Small Things It Knows Where You Live Trog Boy Ran I Live in the Gut It Won’t Be Long Now You Haven’t Seen Me The Grotto Hungry Love Alice, Hanging Out in the Skate Park Horror is everywhere… But most of all it’s right where you live.
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  5. ISBN-10
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"Gary McMahon is a spellbinding storyteller." - Graham Joyce

"Gary McMahon's horror is heartfelt, his characters flawed and desperate..." - Tim Lebbon

"Gary McMahon is one of the finest of a new breed of horror writers." - Steve Rasnic Tem

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Gary McMahon is the acclaimed author of nine novels and several short story collections. His latest novel releases are BEYOND HERE LIES NOTHING (the third in the acclaimed Concrete Grove series, published by Solaris) THE END (an apocalyptic drama published by NewCon Press) and THE BONES OF YOU (a supernatural mystery published by Earthling Publications), and his short fiction has been reprinted in various "Year's Best" volumes. Gary lives with his family in Yorkshire, where he trains in Shotokan karate and likes running in the rain. Website: www.garymcmahon.com

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crystal Lake Publishing
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 28, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 266 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 099221825X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0992218256
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 0.6 x 7.81 inches
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Crystal Lake Publishing

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Since its founding in August 2012, Crystal Lake Publishing has quickly become one of the world’s leading publishers of Dark Fiction and Horror books in print, eBook, and audio formats.

While we strive to present only the highest quality fiction and entertainment, we also endeavour to support authors along their writing journey. We offer our time and experience in non-fiction projects, as well as author mentoring and services, at competitive prices.

With several Bram Stoker Award wins and many other wins and nominations, Crystal Lake Publishing puts integrity, honor, and respect at the forefront of our publishing operations.

We strive for each book and outreach program we spearhead to not only entertain and touch or comment on issues that affect our readers, but also to strengthen and support the Dark Fiction field and its authors.

Not only do we find and publish authors we believe are destined for greatness, but we strive to work with men and woman who endeavour to be decent human beings who care more for others than themselves, while still being hard working, driven, and passionate artists and storytellers.

Crystal Lake Publishing is and will always be a beacon of what passion and dedication, combined with overwhelming teamwork and respect, can accomplish. We endeavour to know each and every one of our readers, while building personal relationships with our authors, reviewers, bloggers, podcasters, bookstores, and libraries.

We will be as trustworthy, forthright, and transparent as any business can be, while also keeping most of the headaches away from our authors, since it’s our job to solve the problems so they can stay in a creative mind. Which of course also means paying our authors.

We do not just publish books, we present to you worlds within your world, doors within your mind, from talented authors who sacrifice so much for a moment of your time.

There are some amazing small presses out there, and through collaboration and open forums we will continue to support other presses in the goal of helping authors and showing the world what quality small presses are capable of accomplishing. No one wins when a small press goes down, so we will always be there to support hardworking, legitimate presses and their authors. We don’t see Crystal Lake as the best press out there, but we will always strive to be the best, strive to be the most interactive and grateful, and even blessed press around. No matter what happens over time, we will also take our mission very seriously while appreciating where we are and enjoying the journey.

What do we offer our authors that they can’t do for themselves through self-publishing?

We are big supporters of self-publishing (especially hybrid publishing), if done with care, patience, and planning. However, not every author has the time or inclination to do market research, advertise, and set up book launch strategies. Although a lot of authors are successful in doing it all, strong small presses will always be there for the authors who just want to do what they do best: write.

What we offer is experience, industry knowledge, contacts and trust built up over years. And due to our strong brand and trusting fanbase, every Crystal Lake Publishing book comes with weight of respect. In time our fans begin to trust our judgment and will try a new author purely based on our support of said author.

To date we’ve published around 100 books, and with each launch we strive to fine-tune our approach, learn from our mistakes, and increase our reach. We continue to assure our authors that we’re here for them and that we’ll carry the weight of the launch and dealing with third parties while they focus on their strengths—be it writing, interviews, blogs, signings, etc.

We also offer several mentoring packages to authors that include knowledge and skills they can use in both traditional and self-publishing endeavours.

We look forward to launching many new careers.

This is what we believe in. What we stand for. This will be our legacy.

Welcome to Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the Darkest Depths.

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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Original work
    Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2019
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    A lot of horror starts to all look alike, but Gary McMahon has some refreshing , original story ideas in Where You Live.
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  • S. P. Miskowski
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ordinary People, Extraordinary Horror
    Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2014
    Format: Paperback
    As the publisher's note states, "horror is everywhere." Gary McMahon has a gift for spotting the discarded toy on the lawn that indicates something sinister is going on inside the house. His use of highly recognizable settings and situations is designed to draw the reader in, but also to leave us no critical distance, no safe place in which to process and objectify (and neutralize) our fear.

    Usually when readers praise a writer's imagination they're impressed by the number of whimsical places and creatures he can describe. But it requires a powerful imagination to explore our dread of mortality within the common spaces of modern life--between the office and home, or on a weekend drive in the country--and to make the exploration compelling. McMahon has imagination to spare. He visits seemingly ordinary people just before they encounter or admit something terrible. More often than not, the horror they face corresponds to inner turmoil. Husbands and wives all but wreck one another with love. Fathers are so afraid of failure and vulnerability, they become the monsters their children dream about.

    If the settings and characters seem, at first glance, mundane, remember that these are only starting points. The explicit dangers of the actual world, where everyone must die, are woven together with the mysterious and the numinous, often in magnificent patterns.

    McMahon clearly aims to get us "where we live," offering familiar guides with nametags askew, to lead us into something horrific. And maybe home again.

    Highly recommended.
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  • DaveB.
    3.0 out of 5 stars Horror can happen at home.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2018
    Format: Kindle
    I received a preview copy of this book. My first impression is that the stories were dismal accounts of the dismal lives of dismal people. Most of the characters in the stories were experiencing pretty depressing events - divorce, job loss, loneliness - and then were facing true weirdness. The weirdness occurred in or around dwellings or workplaces. Doors would slam into the face of a desperate jobseeker. Furniture would appear suddenly and play host to otherworldly events. In one tale, a flock of sheep demonstrate a form of deadly single mindedness and commit unspeakable acts.
    If I have any major complaints about this collection, it is that I felt the endings of most of the stories were too abrupt. Perhaps the author wants the reader to use his or her imagination, but I would have liked a bit more closure. There is quite a bit of variety in the themes of the stories, so one of my three stars can be attributed to that.
    Basically this is an interesting read but it could stand more scares and better endings.
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  • fluffyredfox
    4.0 out of 5 stars a rabbit hole of horror!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2013
    Format: Kindle
    Gary McMahon does a really nice forward and even manages to throw in a random story!

    GM has a beautiful way of writing, so descriptive, some embedded humour that you merely smirk at before he whaps you around the face with a dead fish or two.

    My favourite line in the whole book is; baked beans were like angels‟ eggs bursting against his teeth.

    Just Another Horror Story: two illicit lovers begin to tell ghost stories post coitus and it’s a gruesome one indeed, then she finds the Horror Stories book, from there it all goes a bit pear shaped. A strange ending but a gripping story.

    Barcode: Patrick and Sophie get that dreaded phone call from the bank….they are about to lose their house, just as he sees a ghost? walk past the window. His money worries stem from his failing business and made worse by the need to lay off staff and his latest job gives him more to worry about. Things go from bad to worse as he ends up with a defining dream….. Not sure about this story I was really enjoying it, not something I would do with a ghost story normally but GM kept the pace fast and unrelenting, then it sort of drops of a cliff. I reread the last paragraph in case I missed something, but nope, maybe I just don’t get it.

    The Row: the narrator is on Sebastian Street to survey the row of derelict houses that have a history; mutilated bodies, missing children, drug addicts, ghosts and spooks. Soon he begins to get strange feelings, dreams and eventually nightmares about The Row at Sebastian Street. Ghostly houses; different, just not my thing, the ending was definitely spooky though.

    When One Door Closes: poor Nick, no job, no chances and Annie has started to read The Guardian! Then doors start to shut on him, whilst quite amusing to start with you wonder if he will be stuck in a lift for the rest of his life; or his he just losing his marbles? GM has a really great way of writing a riveting story but I am finding the endings lacking, almost like he can’t be bothered to finish them. OR I’m just too stupid to get this style of writing/horror story.

    The Chair: poor young Ben longing for his Father and having only a drunken Mother to love him, and dish out the pills. Then came The Chair. Despite having the best line of the book in it, this story felt unfinished for me, I wanted more.

    Truth Hurts: Cal has cracks in his body and Barbara dreams of orange trees…… just weird! But so wonderful.

    Down: an observation between teacher and pupils as they slowly go missing in a dark cave. What is dripping? Where are the cave dwelling critters? Either my coffee just kicked in or these stories are getting weirder! And it’s all brilliant.

    Sounds Weird: a really sad look at life in this one, whilst the main character tries to work out what is on the mp3 player the whole world seems to go upside-down. Yup the coffee has definitely kicked in. This book is well laid out with its stories as you feel yourself softly, softly slide down the rabbit hole, and then given a shove by GM.

    The Table: Ben arrives home to find a table. As the pieces slowly filter in it becomes clear that this is the Ben with the pills and The Chair – now the story can be finished. What a sad, sad ending.
    The Sheep: Bill, Hannah, the wellie boot and the dirty, itchy sheep. GM guides you round a bed in the rabbit warren he has created and this little story drives you to distraction with its accurate relationship observations and then final offering.

    Small Things: Sheila is driving in a no man’s land, her daughter is plugged in to the latest game, the radio is playing static, who is following them? Who cares? It’s all down to the Small Things. Oh, a spooky tale – very staccato in its telling making you rush to the end and then wishing you hadn’t.

    It Knows Where You Live: another disintegrating relationship type of story with some great observations about a couple who barely know each other anymore, but that doesn’t stop the husband fantasizing about killing her! I’m not sure if GM meant this to be funny but it made me smirk a lot.

    Trog Boy Ran: Niles is missing Abby, so he stalks her. Is it the creepy little beard he has? The lack of food? Or is something stalking him! Very strange but entrancing story. As with all GM little stories, I’m not sure I enjoy them, but I am riveted.
    I live in the Gut: aaaaaw a tale of love found and a new beginning all wrapped up in gore, tentacles and bone crunching. This was my favourite story.

    It Won’t Be Long Now: our story teller is waiting for his audience and chatting with….well, someone. You get the gist of what is occurring as you read, in small spine chilling shudders.

    You Haven’t Seen Me: poor Trendle, he is a social outcast, being more damaged by the daily grind and his own terror. When it all comes to a head I do believe he is grateful. Such an emotive tale.

    The Groto: a snippet of the non-movie family at the usual boring xmas, slowly things deepen into a pit of despair and The Groto inhabitant is calling. What crawls out is not what you expect. Such an acute look at society today.

    Hungry Love: a tale of all consuming love, literally. What is Terry hiding and what does Stan find so wonderfully fluffy! There is a definite erotic edge to this story and some more of that smirk value.

    Alice, Hanging Out at the Skate Park: this is split into a few parts so you are taken on a journey by GM. The ending is strange but warranted in an odd way.

    At the end of the book GM talks his way through each story, I would have preferred him to do this at the end or beginning of each one to get the full feeling.

    This is not something I would normally read and GM is a new author to me, a little strange and wacky for my tastes but the man certainly has a talent.
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  • R
    4.0 out of 5 stars McMahon Knows Where You Live...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2013
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    The latest collection from the prolific pen of Gary McMahon takes twelve stories from his sold out, very limited, collection It Knows Where You Live and adds to these an additional seven stories. McMahon is a great proponent of the short story and the selection on offer here maintains his reputation for strong, emotionally impactful fiction. My only criticism is with the layout of the collection which rather than combining all the stories into a cohesive whole they are separated into two sections, one of stories from the original collection and a second, titled 'Other Monsters', with the new material. I would have liked to have seen more consideration given to the story order to heighten the reader's experience.

    The stories offered up here are never less than engrossing and a significant number extremely strong with a couple, 'You Haven't Seen Me' and 'Alice, Hanging Out in the Skate Park', that are still permeating my mind several days after I finished with the collection. Both of those stories are from the new material and as such were newer to me having read the original collection previously.

    It's nice to see a great number of the original collection becoming more widely available, although one of my favourites from that version 'Hope is a Small Thing Dying in a Bin Behind an Abandoned Kebab Shop' hasn't made the cut, and this would be a perfect collection to give as a gift to introduce a new reader to the exceptional short fiction of Gary McMahon which reflects and exaggerates the grim reality of Britain's crumbling urban societies. Short horror fiction doesn't get more essential than this.
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  • kaffeekenner
    1.0 out of 5 stars Bereits erschienen unter "It knows where you live" by McMahon
    Reviewed in Germany on February 1, 2014
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    Es wäre schön, wenn Amazon etwas über den Inhalt des Buches angegeben hätte. Dann könnte der zukünftige Käufer sehen, dass es sich nur um eine verkürzte Version Taschenbuchversion des Hardcovers "It knows where you live" von Gary McMahon handelt. Aber gerade hier gibt es keinen "Blick ins Buch", der das Inhaltsverzeichnis anzeigt.
    Die Stories selbst sind gut, aber Sammler und Liebhaber werden selbstverständlich dem signierten Hardcover "It knows where you live" den Vorrang beim Kauf geben.
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