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In his final collection of short stories, once again we are invited into Taylor Grant's unique and macabre imagination. A man discovers a portal in his basement that offers him an infinite variety of alternate lives he can live. A woman seeks revenge on the man who destroyed her life. In treating a young man's haunted memories of a childhood trauma, a psychiatrist uncovers terrifying possibilities. A property speculator gets more than she bargained for when she buys an unsellable house in a small town with a morbid obsession with Halloween. And in the collection's title story, a journalist fights to solve the mystery of a world of disappearing people. Come on in and explore the dark labyrinths of the human mind and what it's capable of, if you dare. ""Taylor Grant's stories burrow into your mind like a dark seed, innocuous at first, growing until they overtake you. These stories are all winners, each bringing Grant's classic blend of twist-filled California macabre with a heaping dose of EC comics. This volume is a terrific testament to a life's work ... one that should find a place on the shelf amongst his heroes and peers.""-John Palisano, Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of Requiem and Ghost Heart ""I've always admired Taylor Grant's extraordinary gifts for lifting up life's most mundane rocks - bureaucracy, crushing jobs, middle-class striving, fragile egos - and shining a light on the things slithering through the darkness beneath. His fiction can be wryly amusing or even reassuring, but it's always disturbing, and The Shuddering Breath Before Oblivion should be a welcome addition to any collection of great horror.""-Lisa Morton, six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Where Stories Come Alive!

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Born in 1970, in Phoenix, Arizona, Taylor Grant was a two-time Bram Stoker Award nominated author, professional screenwriter, actor, and award-winning filmmaker. His work has been seen on network television, the big screen, the stage and the web, in newspapers, comic books, national magazines and anthologies, and heard on the radio. He started his career in children's entertainment, serving as a staff writer and development consultant for multiple production companies working on various projects, including Beetlejuice, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Bad Dog, and Monster Farm, which he created and co-developed for television. As development executive at Stan Lee Media, Taylor worked closely with the iconic creator, co-developing multiple web animated series, including The Backstreet Project, The Accuser, The Drifter, and The 7th Portal. In recent years, as Head of Global Animation at Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, Taylor executive produced the animated TV series Lore Olympus with The Jim Henson Company and served as a Business Development Lead on the global hit anime series Tower of God, as well as The God of High School. He also produced the horror feature film Gremoryland, alongside Roy Lee and Vertigo Entertainment, and wrote and produced the #1 horror series Rot & Ruin, a WEBTOON comic adaptation of the New York Times Bestselling novel by Jonathan Maberry. He wrote and produced two short films The Vanished and Sticks and Stones, which screened at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and received distribution through Sony and Shorts TV.As an author Taylor shared pages with Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Clive Barker, and many of the top writers in speculative fiction, with short fiction published in Cemetery Dance Magazine, Weird Tales, The Siren's Call and Weirdbook and in numerous anthologies. His first collection of short stories, The Dark at the End of the Tunnel (2015, Crystal Lake Publishing), became an instant Amazon bestseller and was nominated for two Bram Stoker Awards, for 'Best Collection' and for 'Best Short Story' ('The Infected'). His second collection, The Many Deaths of Cole Parker was published in 2020 by Running Wild Press. The Shuddering Breath Before Oblivion, a final tribute to Taylor, collects the last of his short fiction. Taylor died on September 12th, 2024.

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