The Witnesses are Gone

Author(s): Lane, Joel,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 19/01/2023,
Pagination: 100 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Influx Press,
Published By: Influx Press,
Book Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945),
Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 12
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781910312971

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Moving into an old and decaying house, Martin Swann discovers a box of video cassettes in the garden shed. One of them is a bootleg copy of a morbid and disturbing film by obscure French director, Jean Rien.

The discovery leads Martin on a search for the director's other films, and for a way to understand Rien's filmography, drawing him away from his home and his lover into a shadowy realm of secrets, rituals and creeping decay. An encounter with a crazed film journalist in Gravesend leads to drug-fuelled visions in Paris - and finally to the Mexican desert where a grim revelation awaits.

The Witnesses Are Gone is a first-hand account of a journey into the darkest parts of the underworld - a look behind the screen on which our collective nightmares play.