"Tell me about your trip to the pampas, Uncle Joaquin," Lillian pleaded. "And don't leave out a single detail."

"I'll tell you. But first I'm going to describe the thing I saw out there in the pampas, even if it frightens you."

Joaquin had convinced four former comrades from the upper echelons of the Argentine Air Force, with whom he had served during the Falklands War, to spend the week between Christmas and New Year's on a hunting trip to the pampas grasslands.

What they found there was beyond belief...

In the enduring tradition of classic British and American ghost and horror stories, A Night in the Pampas continues John Stewart Wynne's exploration of the uncanny with this macabre tale, as he did with reincarnation in his story Louise, Don't Go and a living skeleton in The Needles Highway.

Wynne is known for his unsettling, highly-acclaimed story collection The Other World and his novel The Red Shoes which was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction. His work has been praised for its audacious originality and chiseled, precise prose. As Details magazine said about The Other World: "In pages that tremble with beauty, Wynne gracefully reveals the darker side of human possibilities." Wikipedia notes that, "His writing often depicts characters in extremis, outsiders adrift in a conformist landscape, in plots that juxtapose the surreal and naturalistic. He has been hailed as the heir apparent to the tradition of 'outsider art' exemplified by Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers and Truman Capote."

In addition to A Night in the Pampas, Tree Line Books has published in ebook format five other standalone stories by John Stewart Wynne: Louise, Don't Go; Narcissist; Blonds; The Sighting (praised on its first publication by writers as diverse as Hubert Selby Jr., James Purdy, Charles Palliser, and Prix Goncourt winner Yves Navarre); and The Needles Highway. The publisher has recently brought out The Other World in new print and ebook formats, and new print and ebook editions of The Red Shoes will be published in September 2025.

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