Bradley Bowman -- "B" to his friends -- was an up-and-coming Hollywood star when he began to be tormented by visions of impossible monsters. Now he lives a threadbare existence, unsure whether he's going insane or just witnessing the workings of a deeper world. When a desperate man asks for B's help to journey to the underworld to save his lost love, B agrees... but the ordeal becomes more personal than he expected.
This is the first story featuring Bradley, who became a major character in Pratt's series of urban fantasy novels about sorcerer Marla Mason.
Bradley Bowman -- "B" to his friends -- was an up-and-coming Hollywood star when he began to be tormented by visions of impossible monsters. Now he lives a threadbare existence, unsure whether he's going insane or just witnessing the workings of a deeper world. When a desperate man asks for B's help to journey to the underworld to save his lost love, B agrees... but the ordeal becomes more personal than he expected.
This is the first story featuring Bradley, who became a major character in Pratt's series of urban fantasy novels about sorcerer Marla Mason.
Tim Pratt's stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Year's Best Fantasy, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, and other nice places. He has won the Hugo Award (science fiction's highest honor) for his short fiction, and he's been a finalist for World Fantasy, Sturgeon, Stoker, Mythopoeic, and Nebula Awards. He lives in Berkeley CA with his wife, writer Heather Shaw, and their son.
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Bradley Bowman -- "B" to his friends -- was an up-and-coming Hollywood star when he began to be tormented by visions of impossible monsters. Now he lives a threadbare existence, unsure whether he's going insane or just witnessing the workings of a deeper world. When a desperate man asks for B's help to journey to the underworld to save his lost love, B agrees... but the ordeal becomes more personal than he expected.This is the first story featuring Bradley, who became a major character in Pratt's series of urban fantasy novels about sorcerer Marla Mason.