David Summers

The Gray Man and Other Stories

Fiction

“These stories are a pleasure to read. They have a distinct 'edge' to them that comes from their conviction that there are 'more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt in your philosophy.' The philosophy under pressure here is the fundamental assumption that the world as we know it is utterly material and disenchanted. Here are tales that haunt the borderlands of the disenchantment of modern life--always remembering that 'enchantment' can look either sublime or terrifying, and sometimes both at the same time. C. Stephen Layman is recovering the post-modern soul.”