Frequencies of Existence

Andrew Hook sees the world through a different lens. He takes often mundane things and coaxes the reader to find strangeness, beauty, and horror in their form; he colours the world in surreal shades and leads the reader down discomforting paths where nothing is quite as it should be. Frequencies of Existence features twenty-four of the author’s finest stories, including four that are original to this collection.

“For lovers of metafiction, poetic text, intellectual narrative and elusive characters who linger to haunt you. The thrill you get reading Andrew Hook’s weird collection is out of this world. It’s a pastiche of the literary strange. You’ll want to read more of Hook after this.” – Aurealis

“Andrew Hook is an undisputed superstar of strange fiction” – Neil Williamson, author of The Moon King

“A rich slab of Andrew Hook’s trademark understated darkness: measured, careful, but ruthless in its own quiet way.” – Chris Beckett, Arthur C. Clarke and Edge Hill Prize-winning author.

“His stories range from the darkly apocalyptic to the hopefully visionary, some brilliant and none less than satisfactory." – The Harrow

“Refreshingly original, uncompromisingly provocative, and daringly intelligent” – The Future Fire

Contents:
Your Golden Hands
The Universe At Gun Point
Kodokushi
A Knot of Toads
The Abduction of Europe
The Aniseed Gumball Kid
Eskimo
The Last Mohican
Bullet
A Life In Plastic
Burning Daylight
Making Friends With Fold-Out Flaps
The Frequency of Existence
The Stench of Winter
A Pageant of Clouds
Always Forever Today
The Caged Sea
Interference
Softwood
My Naked Man
Tokyo In Rain
The Day My Heart Stood Still
Drowning In Air
White Matter
About the Author


Genre: Fantasy

"Andrew Hook is an undisputed superstar of strange fiction." - Neil Williamson