Grendel and Other Tall Tales

GRENDEL and Other Tall Tales By Duane Hewitt “Hewitt … is a writer to watch.” Canadian Book Review Annual “Hewitt is a fresh Canadian voice whose crisp, candid prose draws you in and doesn’t let you leave – a top-notch storyteller.” Graeme Campbell, Film Director “… an unusually forthright storyteller …” Canadian Book Review Annual Fiction: suitable for 12 and up “I will never forget the sound of their screams…” Thus begins our journey through 16 tales of sci-fi adventure, gothic horror and fantasy, where bumbling aliens, creatures of the unknown, and modern-day daimons meet in dark grey landscapes of otherworld realities and the paranormal. Search for diamonds in 19th-century Africa with seven men hunted by a monster. Free-fall through sanity and madness with a group of skydivers. March through a futuristic military operation into its disturbing finale. With nods to Poe and Lovecraft, Duane Hewitt’s 16 stories in GRENDEL and Other Tall Tales are fascinating explorations of grey nightmarish regions and the fantastic. Duane Hewitt is the author of five other works of fiction including two novels, Savage and The Chaos of Days. He lives in Toronto.