The Secret of Ventriloquism

About this book

With themes reminiscent of Shirley Jackson Thomas Ligotti and Bruno Schulz but with a strikingly unique vision Jon Padgetts The Secret of Ventriloquism heralds the arrival of a significant new literary talent. Padgetts work explores the mystery of human suffering the agony of personal existence and the ghastly means by which someone might achieve salvation from both. A bullied child who seeks vengeance within a beds hollow box spring; a lucid dreamer haunted by an impossible house; a dummy that reveals its own anatomy in 20 simple steps; a stuttering librarian who holds the key to a mill towns unspeakable secrets; a commuter whose worldview is shattered by two words printed on a cardboard sign; an aspiring ventriloquist who spends a little too much time looking at himself in a mirror. And the presence that speaks through them all.