Big Dark Hole

World Fantasy Award finalist

It sounds innocuous. The routine world ofcollege teaching. Quiet evenings on a porch with your wife. And then . . .  maybe it’s an unexpected light in a dark and uninhabited house, maybe it’s a drainage tunnel that some poor kid is suddenly compelled to explore. Maybe there’s a monkey in the woods oran angel that you’ll need to fight if you want to gain tenure. Jeffrey Ford''s stunning new collection Big Dark Holeis about those big, dark holes that we find ourselves once in a while and maybe, too, the big dark holes that exist inside of us.