"(James Ferace is) one of the most exciting new contemporary voices in fiction." - Gregory Norris, author of "The Fierce and Unforgiving Muse" "The Warm Chromatic Mechanism" is a collection of ten stories from author James Ferace ("Imago Mortis," "Somnambulism," "Ockham's Razor"), hand chosen by the author himself and considered by many to be some of his best work. Includes: "Afterbirth," "Blunt Force Trauma," "Cathal," "Delusions of Grandeur," "The Garden of Euthanasia," "Grief Scripture,...

A man visits a patient who'd been burned in a fire. So bad he's just an undulating mass of flesh. Soon, he begins to feel he can "hear" him. Before long, he's carrying out strange tasks for him which may bind them together in unknown ways.

Torturedbyabuseasachild,a man makes the decision to return to the place of his torment.

A small boy is haunted by dreams and nightmarish visions while a killer may or may not be stalking the countryside. (Based on concepts by Thomas Slocum and James Ferace).

Awomanconcoctsanunfathomablemethodofgettingrevengeonherrapistwhichthreatenstodestroyherhumanity.

A young man born with an unusual, benign birthmark on his hand, begins to suffer personal tragedies in his adolescence, right around the time he begins having pains in the same hand, and starts to wonder if the two things are related.

A man awakes every morning to find that he's been injured in his sleep...and, each night, the injuries are becoming worse.

A lonely man summons a nymph. After a lengthy period of contentment, however, she leaves him for another man...and his psychotic urges take over.

A man with no arms, no legs, and only half a tongue finds a way to get back at those who are taking advantage of him.

A man dreams of escaping his unsatisfying life to a place he fondly remembers from his childhood, all the while having visions of his dead father.

After moving on with his life after his fiancé went missing some years earlier...a man soon finds that his new girlfriend is displaying some suspiciously familiar behavior.

"A man finds himself unable to cope with the demise of his relationship with the love of his life...and his body begins to change in unison with his mental state."