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John Burdeaux

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My Elvis

An Elvis impersonator and his girlfriend stop at an abandoned gas station on the way to a gig and realize that the King himself had passed through in 1956, leaving in his wake a heartache and a horror.

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True Point of Beginning

Converging on a long-abandoned mine in the desert Southwest, a pair of slacker half-brothers, a doleful would-be starlet, and an on-the-make Hollywood guru square off in search of a stolen religious relic buried there after the Vietnam War.

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33C

Finally getting her life back together after a traumatic divorce, a wealthy New York woman becomes fixated on a mysterious younger woman who lives down the hall of her luxury East Side apartment building.

Empathic

A young boy accompanies his father on morning rounds on the hospice floor of a hospital, and an innocent game of hide-and-seek leads him to the brink of a disturbing revelation.

Are You Loathsome Tonight?

An Elvis impersonator and his girlfriend stop at an abandoned gas station on the way to a gig, and realize that the King himself had passed this way years before, leaving in his wake a heartache and a horror.

This Vehicle Has Been Checked for Sleeping Children

A school bus driver is taunted by a menacing presence in the last row of his vehicle.

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Pelham Bay Park

Two girls meet at a deserted baseball field in the Bronx and are drawn into an absurd and unsettling match of wills.

New York Lobby,
3:00 a.m.

A doorman on the overnight shift at a New York apartment building must balance the mundane details of his job with larger issues – of psychic and perhaps cosmic importance – that also confront him on a nightly basis.

Popular Fiction and the New Weird: One Writer's Perspective

A successful writer of popular horror fiction dictates notes for an academic paper, musing on his contempt for the publishing world, his own conflicted feelings about selling out, and the bloody fate of a mysteriously persistent fan who showed up at his country house the night before.

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A veteran small-time gangster has to deal with a hot-headed younger partner on a last routine bag job when things take an inexplicable turn into the dream-like.

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