Chris Ebert

Ophelia and Other Weird Tales Chris Ebert

Ophelia and Other Weird tales is the debut short fiction collection from author Chris Ebert. 11 tales span horror, sci-fi, weird fiction, dark humor, occult history, and spirituality. Anyone believing that every story has already been told will be corrected by this volume. Ebert's ground-breaking stories enriched with his own brand of surreal humor, references to real world myth and occult history, dark philosophy, and willingness to ask forbidden questions and provide taboo answers are guaranteed to feed a hunger in both literary and genre buffs that has too long gone unmet.

Ebert has been compared to Lovecraft, Gaiman, Barker, and Dunsany, but in Ophelia has clearly found his own voice that in some ways outshines his literary ancestors and lacks any precedent. The stories encompass a man and a spider who do battle with the now corrupt God himself with the aid of the infamous Cthulhu, a cowboy and a dinosaur who must save a child's soul from an evil preacher, a necromancer trust fund baby and his lovable demon familiar hunting the Fates, two sentient insects who face the ultimate horror, an amnesiac girl and her robot companion running from an unknown enemy, a hypnotist who confronts nothingness itself, two nineteenth century day laborers who discover death is an illusion - and must decide if it will remain so, a ghost struggling to save his family from his own reanimated corpse, an undead explorer who befriends the queen of all demons, a haunting look at the former life of the world's most famous ghost, and a time traveler who discovers the rules of paradox no longer apply to him due to his unique method of time travel.