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Coming Soon: Tony Burgess’s People Still Live in Cashtown Corners
Detail of the cover of People Still Live in Cashtown Corners.
Bob Clark, owner of the local gas station/convenience store, is the sole inhabitant of the tiny town of Cashtown Corners—or so it says in the county clerk’s office. Bob is beginning to suspect otherwise. Horrified by a series of compulsive murders he cannot stop himself from committing, Bob has all but split into two distinct personalities, making the gas station counter a slightly less lonely place.
Tony Burgess’s new novella, People Still Live in Cashtown Corners, elevates this simple premise into an odyssey of metaphysical alienation that doesn’t skimp on the horror-show thrills (Burgess’s protagonist shares the same name as Bob Clark, the director of the original Black Christmas and Deathdream). The novella is being released by Toronto’s ChiZine Publications, who have also just published a limited-edition reissue of Burgess’s Pontypool Changes Everything, the basis for Bruce McDonald’s film Pontypool.
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