The Man on the Ceiling (Discoveries)
by Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem
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Author: Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic TemEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-04
ISBN: 0786948582
Number of pages: 366
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Discoveries
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Book Review: "Everything we're telling you here is true."
Summary: 5 Stars
Just finished "Man on the Ceiling" by Steve and Melanie Tem . . . and it was brilliant. Comparisons to Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine" come to mind, but this is far darker and intensely personal . . . actually, if I may blaspheme for a moment here, I'm of the opinion that it is BETTER than Bradbury.
Mantralike, the Tems repeat the phrase "everything we're telling you here is true" . . . and I believe them. Sure, lots of metaphors and flights of fancy, but the "characters" are the Tems and their extended family, and the vignettes are all based upon real events. Furthermore, having extensive experience with similar matters myself, I can attest that the "hallucinatory delusions" of the Tems are commensurate with the clairvoyant perceptions of others, rather than some pathological folie a' deux.
You see, there exists more around us then the mortal eye can readily perceive . . . our 3-dimension "reality" is but a world within yet another world that is hidden from us. These invisible intelligences and subintelligent astral fauna pass by and through us, manipulating events in our lives and influencing our mood and behavior to no small extent. The average person is blissfully unaware of these external stimuli. The "seer" is also unware of 90% of these spirits, catching but mere glimpses of those who choose to manifest or otherwise interact with us . . . but that's "crazy talk," right?
This is a rich and touching blend of fact and half-fiction based upon alternate realitiesw and possible futures. This new Discoveries edition is an expanded version of the tale originally printed in chapbook form -- I have not had opportunity to see the "condensed" version, but it won multiple literary awards. I'm honoured to be the first reader to review this new expanded edition for Amazon, and am thankful to have discovered the Tems.
Summary of The Man on the Ceiling (Discoveries)
Two interwoven memoirs of love, loss, and family with a haunted, frightening edge.In 2000, American Fantasy Press published an unassuming chapbook titled The Man on the Ceiling. Inside was a dark, surreal, discomfiting story of the horrors that can befall a family. It was so powerful that it won the Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award, and World Fantasy Award--the only work ever to win all three. Now, Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem have re-imagined the story, expanding on the ideas to create a compelling work that examines how people find a family, how they hold a family together despite incomprehensible tragedy, and how, in the end, they find love.
Loosely autobiographical, The Man on the Ceiling has the feel of a family portrait painted by Salvador Dali, where story and reality blend to find the one thing that neither can offer alone: truth.
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