SAN DIEGO – Nov. 28, 2018 – PRLog — Mystic Ink Publishing has published the audio book of “A Short Walk to the Other Side” which won an International Book Award. This Award Winning collection includes a previously published essay from a limited collector’s edition of a bigger hard cover tribute to Bradbury. Following the trail blazed by Bradbury, Pallamary’s tales take readers to the place where the boundaries of reality are blurred in stories that explore supernatural, metaphysical, science fiction, and horrific themes. Pallamary met Bradbury at the legendary Santa Barbara Writers Conference in 1988 where Bradbury kicked off the conference for 37 years before his health declined. Pallamary has carried on the tradition teaching writers of horror, fantasy, and science fiction.

In his book, “101 Best Scenes Ever Written” the late author of the best-selling novel, “Matador”, Steinbeck colleague, and founder of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, Barnaby Conrad grouped Pallamary with other horror greats, stating that readers “often gravitate to the metaphysical like Dean Koontz or Matthew Pallamary and sometimes the protean of Stephen King and …Edgar Allen Poe.”

In the introduction, Pallamary asks: “Who are we really? What or where are the boundaries between what we believe to be real and what we imagine? Do we in fact know ourselves or our true nature? If we are not ourselves, then who or what are we? Where do we really live?”

Stories include a plastic surgeon who loses his “edge”, a psychedelic trip that leads to unexpected dimensions, a gene-splicing experiment gone awry, and the extreme dedication of fitness enthusiasts to the newest weight loss drink, as well as many other boundary pushing themes.

According to Pallamary, “Most people stay entrenched in the cultural mainstream, believing that they could never think or act in such odd and terrifying ways, but we all have our shadow selves. How much does it take to send us over the edge? The truth is that it is a lot shorter walk to the other side than we like to think.”

Click on the link below to listen to a sample and purchase the audiobook :

https://www.audible.com/pd/B07KGK663P/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-133609&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_133609_rh_us

Pallamary’s award winning historical novel Land Without Evil received rave reviews, and was adapted into a multimedia aerial extravaganza, directed by Sarah Agent Red Johnston and performed by acrobatic troupe, Sky Candy to sold out audiences. The making of the show, filmed as a PBS episode, garnered an EMMY nomination.

His memoir Spirit Matters (http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Matters-Matthew-J-Pallamary/…), detailing his journeys from Boston’s concrete jungle to the jungles of Peru, won First Place in the San Diego Book Awards Spiritual Book Category, and was an Award-Winning Finalist in the National Best Book Awards. It was released as an audio book and his first short story collection, The Small Dark Room of the Soul and Other Stories was also recently released as an audio book.

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A Short Walk to the Other Side was narrated by the talented Ethan Fifield whose training as an actor has involved a variety of onstage roles as well as training specifically directed at the development of a stronger voice which is evident in his clear, resonant voice and the numerous characters portrayed in these stories.

San Diego’s Mystic Ink Publishing is an independent publisher focusing on works of a spiritual, shamanic, new age, or transcendent nature.

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