![]() Only Duncan isn’t actually dead, so his sister Janice’s manuscript is riddled with comments from the man himself, contradicting things that Janice insists did happen. But this being Jeff VanderMeer, it’s an afterword to a book that doesn’t actually exist, and covers the disappearance and death of Jonathan Shriek’s son Duncan, who is also an obsessed historian. Just where did the famed city of Ambergris come from, and what is it with the Grey Caps, those underworld-dwelling exiles with their fungal technology and outward similarity to something you’d expect to find diced in a mushroom omelette?Īs its name suggests, this book is an afterword. ![]() Is this fetid hothouse world really the subconscious of that smartly-dressed American writer? Maybe it’s because Jeff VanderMeer looks so normal when you see him at cons or talking on panels that his fiction comes as such a huge shock. ![]() However, overjoyed and overexcited, he trips and dies at his family’s feet. As Shriek: An Afterword begins, Jonathan Shriek, a minor historian, is running towards his family clutching a letter that promises him fame, access to valuable documents and an all-expenses paid research trip. ![]()
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