Portraits of Decay
Under your mask, there is only decay.
In Carson Winter’s debut collection of social horror, characters reveal their darkest selves in the face of the insane and inexplicable.
A couple finds themselves trading identities in the form of masks.
A podcaster follows strange clues to a mystery that may spell his end.
A child’s world collapses into chaos as its dreamer awakens.
Portraits of Decay poses subjects as both transgressor and victim; dreamer and derelict—in eighteen stories of anxiety, desire, and unbearable finality.
Featuring an introduction from Andrew F. Sullivan, author of The Marigold.
Portraits of Decay arrives on June 16.
Carson Winter
Carson Winter is an award-winning author, punker, and raw nerve. His short fiction has appeared in over 20 publications, including Apex, Vastarien, and Chthonic Matter Quarterly. He is the author of Soft Targets, The Psychographist, and A Spectre is Haunting Greentree. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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