The End in All Beginnings

by John F.D. Taff

Overview

Originally published in 2014, John F.D. Taff's Bram Stoker Award-nominated collection, THE END IN ALL BEGINNINGS, will be reissued by Bad Hand Books in 2025.

This collection is a horror tour de force and a dark journey through the human condition. Praised by the late Jack Ketchum as one of the best collections of heartfelt and gut-wrenching horror written in recent history, it's a disturbing trip through the ages exploring the painful tragedies of life, love and loss.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798992483765
Publisher:	Bad Hand Books
Publication date:	09/02/2025
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

John F.D. Taff is a multi-Bram Stoker Award finalist and World Fantasy Award finalist dark fiction author with more than 30 years experience, and more than 125 short stories and seven novels in print.

He has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Unnerving, Deathrealm, Big Pulp and One Buck Horror, as well as anthologies such as Hot Blood: Seeds of Fear, Hot Blood: Fear the Fever, Shock Rock II, Lullabies for Suffering, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Behold!, Shadows Over Main Street 2 & 3, Horror Library V, Best of Horror Library, Dark Visions Vol. 1, Ominous Realities, Death's Realm, I Can Taste the Blood Human Monsters, and Savage Beasts and Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse and Bad Manners.

His novels include The Bell Witch, Kill-Off and the serialized apocalyptic epic The Fearing. Short fiction collections include The End in All Beginnings, Little Deaths: The Definitive Collection, Little Black Spots, and his latest novella collection, All the Stars Die.

Taff's novella collection, The End in All Beginnings, was called one of the best novella collections by Jack Ketchum and was a Stoker Award Finalist. His short "A Winter's Tale" was also a Stoker Finalist.

His anthology Dark Stars, a tribute to that seminal '80s work Dark Forces, was a finalist for the World Fantasy award.

Editorial Reviews

"THE END IN ALL BEGINNINGS is accomplished stuff, complex and heartfelt. It's one of the best novella collections I've read in years!" - JACK KETCHUM, Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of The Box, Closing Time and Peaceable Kingdom

"Taff brings the pain in five damaged and disturbing tales of love gone horribly wrong. This collection is like a knife in the heart. Highly recommended!" - JONATHAN MABERRY, New York Times bestselling author of Code Zero and Fall of Night

"Taff is a standout talent. Look no further than this collection for evidence that not only is horror not dead, there are new proponents of the craft capable to carry it into the future." - KEALAN PATRICK BURKE, Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of The Turtle Boy, Kin, and Jack & Jill

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