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The Lost District and Other Stories by Lane, Joel is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A collection of fantastic and horrific stories that deal thematically address the core relationships of ones life, be they parental, first loves, best friends, or lovers (of both the hetero and homosexual variety). The decaying industrial backdrop of England's midlands provides a working class context that is both uniquely English, but universally accessible.* * * Joel Lane follows his award-winning collection The Earth Wire (1994) with a still darker and more subversive assemblage of strange tales. The Lost District links the hidden places in urban and small-town landscapes to the hidden places in human lives. Set in a post-industrial hinterland of the present, the near future, and the imagined, these stories portray human encounters with the unknown: sexual discovery, drug-inspired visions, the lonely paths of madness, and the shadowy realm on the other side of death. Here you will read of a porn film actor whose scars reveal the forces controlling his life; an underground factory where outsiders pay a terrible price in order to belong; a musician haunted by the madness of a dead singer; a neighborhood fading into corrupt echoes of itself; and a man who literally follows his ex-l

Who reads The Lost District and Other Stories?

Author

Lane, Joel

Publisher

Night Shade Books

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781597800396

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Graphic Novel, Comics

Rating

3.94 / 5 (72 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14