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Estonian Street Artist Is Transforming Ordinary City Walls Into Bizarre, Cartoonish Masterpieces That Will Make You Stop Dead In Your Tracks
ngmar Järve is an Estonian freelance graphic designer, illustrator, and street artist (often known as Gutface). Based in Estonia, his creative practice bridges the gap between raw urban counterculture, clean graphic design, and bold character-driven illustration. His work is characterized by vibrant, thought-provoking visuals that blend playful cartoon aesthetics with a sharp, satirical edge.
Dark Party - koncert Danse Macabre oraz Haunted Hawks
Danse Macabre powstał w 1991 r. z inspiracji zespołami takimi jak The Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, The Mission, Killing Joke, 1984. Zespół w latach 90. zagrał kilkanaście koncertów głównie na Śląsku, po czym zawiesił działalność. W 2014 r. grupa reaktywuje się i gra koncerty w całej Polsce m.in. z zespołami Closterkeller, XIII Stoleti, 1984, Pornografia. W 2021 r. Danse Macabre świętuje swoje XXX-lecie oraz występuje na Castle Party Festival.
Epilogue - QSaltLake Magazine
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 25, 6:42 pm In the Foothills Above Salt Lake City I suppose I can’t sit here forever. Once the passageway disappeared, and after what I had promised to Pil, I knew it was time to go. So I walked away from our home in the Avenues, forcing myself to keep my eyes ahead and not look back, lest it destroy my resolve. That didn’t make it any easier, of course.
Excerpt from: "Song 57" by Keith Woo
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. Can I write my way out of this grief? Is there a pattern of ink on paper than will give meaning to this unhealed wound? In quiet moments now I imagine myself alone— graying in a trailer park outside Boise, with dogs barking and a sad tune playing on a distant radio.
Chapter 3.62: The Last
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 24, 7:16 pm Richard stood in the living room with his back to the shimmering passageway. He was looking out the small side window, watching Pil and Carla, as they made their way back to the squad car.
Chapter 3.61: Homecoming
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 24, 6:46 pm Nothing in living memory compared to the devastation that was visited on Salt Lake City, during those thirty-six hours in June.
Chapter 3.60: The Last Stars
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 17 – 18 In the end, there were very few ghosts who did not cross over when their passageways appeared. When Richard peered into the yellow haze of the Hereafter, he saw that only a handful of stars remained, and with the corrupting presence of the Wanderer now gone, all the stars were now turquoise.
Chapter 3.58: Passage
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 9:03 pm As the Stone in the Stream crumbled, the shock wave of the Wanderer’s demise rolled out, like a sonic boom across the Hereafter. As the wave reached Salt Lake City, the carnage ended as suddenly as it had begun.
Chapter 3.56: Shatter
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 8:57 pm As Richard fled from the body of Sutton Deary, he found himself airborne. But only for a moment. His heels struck the ground, and instantly he was falling backward and flailing, before crashing hard into the gravel floor of the wash.
Chapter 3.55: The Dread Anticipation of Release
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 8:56 pm Richard would never know what forced him into the body of Sutton Deary. Perhaps it was his own subconscious need, far too strong to resist. Or perhaps it was Drouillard himself—staring death in the face, and reaching out to grasp Richard’s soul like a lifeline.
Chapter 3.54: Sunset
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 8:55 pm In just minutes, the sun would be gone. Morgan Jensen had been hiding with Rhonda Ferguson under the metal walkway between the two helicopter pads for over thirty minutes. They crawled under there, at Rhonda’s insistence, the second they saw the helicopter approaching.
Chapter 3.53: The Stone in the Stream
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 8:15 pm The desert was infused with the rich, amber light of the setting sun. Those who have hiked in the desert know how still it can become, especially during the hours approaching sunset. The birds have all roosted for the evening and the insects have paused their buzzing, as if they are waiting for dusk to begin their endless mating dances.
Chapter 3.52: Angel's Landing
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 7:16 pm Bradley had flown combat missions over Afghanistan and he had seen his share of death and destruction from the air. But he had never seen anything like this. The largely intact infrastructure of Salt Lake City made the devastation even more striking, and even more chilling.
Chapter 3.51: Arrival
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 7:15 pm The trip from the roadblock to Dugway seemed to take forever. It wasn’t because of the speed. The squad car actually made great time down to Tooele, and then up and over the mountains toward Dugway.
Chapter 3.50: Deadly Cargo
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 6:15 pm As he drove the Jeep with the two scientists in the back, Bradley thought it strange how his chest was in his way. Each time he turned the steering wheel, the rubbing of his arms against the sides of his newly acquired breasts brought a pleasant thrill, which made it rather difficult for him to concentrate on what he needed to do.
Chapter 3.49: Whatever is Necessary
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 4:57 pm Richard remembered the exhilaration he had felt, the day after he returned from the dead, when he discovered he could run like a cheetah, and never get tired. But now, as he and Billy darted around the stalled cars and leapt over the bodies and other obstacles that littered the roads, he felt nothing but anxiety.
Chapter 3.48: The Relentless March of Science
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 4:55 pm Sutton hung up the phone and leaned back in his old, comfortable chair. This is going better than I could have dreamed, he mused. Mattie was on her way, with the chubby boy and his big guard dog. That practically guaranteed that Pratt would be along shortly behind. They would all arrive before sunset.
Chapter 3.47: Containment
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 4:37 pm Perhaps the military occupation of the university campus was a sign that Salt Lake City had not been completely forsaken by the outside world. But if so, it was a sign that few of the survivors witnessed.
Chapter 3.46: A Ship on the Sea of Madness
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 4:15 pm Nothing she had seen over the last horrific day had prepared Morgan for the living nightmare that unfolded in the studios of KUTV.
Chapter 3.45: Playing Possum
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 4:12 pm At first, she had panicked. Then she had tried to fight. But now Carla Grayson had settled into a cold, hard silence.
Chapter 3.44: The Passion of Howard Gunderson
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 4:12 pm Billy found Richard kneeling alone in the street in front of his house. How long he had been there, Billy didn’t know. And he wasn’t sure that Richard knew either. The sense of defeat that had overwhelmed Billy at the university was only aggravated when he looked upon the pathetic, almost catatonic, shell of his friend.
Chapter 3.43: NVCK-9
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 3:30 pm As Mattie was racing away from the university, with her two prisoners locked into the back of the squad car, Sutton Deary and his shadowy wingmen were descending in the elevator to the sub-basement of Building C. It was a large freight elevator, and it moved very slowly.
Chapter 3.42: The President's Circle
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 3:25 pm Billy reached the southern end of the University of Utah campus in a matter of minutes. On the way, he saw very little of the living. But there were plenty of the dead, littering Foothill Drive.
Chapter 3.41: Zombies
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 2:50 pm Pil knew they could not be the only ones still alive in the tunnel. But in the moments after the weight of all the bodies had finished piling upon them, everything seemed strangely still. The gunfire ended after no more than a minute, receding quickly down the street.
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Chapter 3.40: In the Stone Fortress
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 2:35 pm It was as if Howard’s invitation had purified and sanctified them both. Richard’s regrets and guilt over what he had done to Justin, although they were not healed, were set aside for a moment, the way a drowning swimmer might strip himself of wet clothing that threatened to drag him to the bottom of the sea.
Chapter 3.38: The Wheelbarrow
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 2:20 pm It’s going to be a beautiful evening for an apocalypse, Sutton Deary thought. He was striding down the gravel road between the Ditto’s administrative buildings and its sprawling complex of laboratories. It was still early afternoon, but already he was anticipating the triumphant end of his play.
Chapter 3.37: Down the Rabbit Hole
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 2:20 pm At that exact moment, as Richard and Justin were disappearing into Howard Gunderson, a spray of automatic gunfire mowed down a dozen people on South Temple. Pil, Keith, and Billy were working their way east with the crowd, and they were less than three blocks from the hospital when Pil heard the shots.
Chapter 3.36: Flashbulbs in the Desert
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 2:15 pm To Howard’s surprise, Richard’s plan was working. At least, as far as it went. As he stood in the middle of J Street, with his hand clasped in what felt to his fingers like open air, but to his eyes looked like the wrist of Justin Kimball, he still felt an odd distance from it all.
Chapter 3.35: Carol from Public Relations
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 2:09 pm I feel like we’re a pack of squirrels that have been chased up a tree… Morgan couldn’t stop thinking about how accurately Rhonda Ferguson had described their plight that morning. Or about her own response. I just hope whatever is hunting us hasn’t learned how to climb. Things hadn’t gotten better for the newsroom since dawn.
Chapter 3.34: Herd Instinct
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 1:45 pm “Pil, we need to keep moving,” Billy whispered. “I know, Billy. Just give us a minute…” Keith looked drawn and pale. He sank down onto the curb, resting his injured arms carefully on his bent knees. Pil knelt next to him, and as Billy glanced around nervously, the two men talked about what to do next.
Chapter 3.33: Fox in a Snare
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 1:45 pm Justin could not have been more surprised, or more pleased, to see Howard Gunderson emerge from the house alone, and walk into the center of the street. Cautiously, he scanned the neighborhood around the boy, who stood with his palms open and his eyes lifted to the sky.
Chapter 3.32: God Casts a Shadow
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 1:45 pm Before they reached Dugway, Bradley began to sneak glances at his companions. Not directly, and not for very long. But at least the dark presences to his right and left no longer caused him terror when he turned his head. He could see a hat on the smaller one, and battered clothes that looked as if he’d been out on the trail.
Chapter 3.31: The Possession Chair
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 1:32 pm This plan sucks, Howard thought. Less than three hours ago, he had told Richard that nobody would ever possess him again. Not Justin, not him, not any of the thousands of ghosts that walked around Salt Lake as if it was some set for a horror movie. He had said it, and he had meant it. At the time, at least.
Chapter 3.30: Even God Forgets
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 1:22 pm Susan Jarvis didn’t think she was going to die. At least, not at first. Sutton had a strange sense of humor, but pulling a gun on her seemed beyond the pale. Her first instinct was to tell him that this wasn’t funny, and that this was no time to be fucking around.
Chapter 3.29: The Bird Has Flown
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 1:21 pm Billy followed three steps behind Keith and Pil, constantly looking to the left and right, as well as scanning the street to their rear. He looked under cars, and into the yards of the broken, burned, or locked up houses on either side of the street.
Chapter 3.28: One Step Further
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 1:20 pm Justin hadn’t moved since Mattie left. And alone at the window, he felt as if the room he was in was becoming ever smaller; as if the pressure of the air itself on his skin was collapsing his body into something harder and more cruel. He could feel the cold eyes of the dead couple in the bed behind him.
Chapter 3.27: His Right Hand
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 1:03 pm Corporal Susan Jarvis saw her commanding officer’s Jeep as it pulled up outside of their office in the Ditto. She breathed a huge sigh of relief, promising herself that she would not let Commander Deary see exactly how worried she had been for the past twenty-four hours.
Chapter 3.26: The Ditto
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 1:00 pm Twenty-five hours after the assault on the city began, the world had changed irrevocably for those who, through fate or circumstance, found themselves within the confines of the Hereafter. No planes were crossing the sky, since the airport had been shut down and the FAA had restricted airspace over the city.
Chapter 3.25: Nothing at All
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 12:55 pm Richard tried not to listen to the low murmur of Keith and Pil’s voices in the living room. Instead, he was pacing nervously back and forth, from the kitchen to the dining room table, as Billy and Howard sat silently and watched.
Excerpt from "Reunion" by Keith Woo
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. I would ask that my skin stop boiling. I would ask that it all be new as crisp snow. I would ask that no one die. I would ask for another half century. I would ask that memories never gray and fade. I would ask that those who once loved me would love me again. I would ask for fresh, warm bread. I would ask for seconds with you.
Chapter 3.24: A Good Man, But a Broken One
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 12:40 pm Keith and Pil sat, side by side, alone on the couch. Without power, and with the blinds fully drawn, Keith thought that the room had a tomb-like quality; the air dense and claustrophobic. Perhaps it was the OxyContin, or perhaps it was the lingering pain in his burned arms that the drug hadn’t been able to extinguish.
Chapter 3.23: Life, Longing for Life
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 12:12 pm Richard wanted to erupt. He wanted to rage at Pil, the way the big man had raged at him. He wanted to scream that he was wrong, and how dare you, and who the fuck do you think you are? He wanted to slap the man’s sweaty face, and insist he was not the monster Pil accused him of being.
Chapter 3.22: Legacy Village Senior Living
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 11:50 am Hours after Carla got Michelle’s voice message, she was still almost four miles from the Avenues. She had encountered so many dead-ends, blocked streets, and impassable roads, that she worried that her cruiser would run out of gas before she could get downtown.
Chapter 3.21: The Only Other Thing He Cares About
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 11:31 am Pil stirred from a nightmare so painful that he struggled to keep it from his waking mind. The dream quickly fled, but he couldn’t banish the tears on his cheek, the image of Michelle’s terrified face as she went up in flames, or the sensation that a brutal vice was clamped onto his heart.
Chapter 3.20: Destiny
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. 1969–1982 For a time, the Wanderer forgot his destiny. To the doctors who helped little Sutton Deary recover in that Bountiful hospital, “George Drouillard” was just a name that the critically injured child muttered in his sleep.
Chapter 3.19: Another
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 10:47 am Something about being in his own home again helped Richard shake off the fear that had been gnawing at his guts. Everything here looked so normal, as if he and Keith were just coming back home after a vacation. That is, if he could ignore the boarded up front window.
Chapter 3.18: At Home with the Weavers
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 9:55 am The neighbors across the street from Keith’s and Richard’s house were the Weavers: Martin and Cathy. They were a young couple with no children. Martin Weaver was a home handyman with a garage full of tools he was cheerfully willing to lend to his neighbors, along with his time and expertise.
Chapter 3.17: Homecoming
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 9:27 am Howard knew instantly, as they left the devastation at the Sinclair station, that he had a serious problem on his hands. Keith was almost catatonic and was only being kept on his feet because Pil had one arm looped around him and was hugging him tightly against the right side of his body.
Chapter 3.16: Inferno
NOTE: This chapter is available in audiobook format on the TLHOC Podcast. Access previous chapters of the book on the Table of Contents page. June 16, 9:15 am “We need to find a map,” Billy said. “A map? What good is that going to do us?” Richard asked, his frustration threatening to boil over. “It’s hard to explain. But I think if we have a state map to look at, it might help us tie all this together. Where can we find one?” “I have maps at my place.
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