The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories

"Matthew Cheney’s most recent book, The Last Vanishing Man (Third Man Books 2023), is first-rate! I can't—as they say—recommend it highly enough." — Samuel R. Delany, Four time Nebula Award, two time Hugo Award, winning author and Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee

Matthew Cheney’s stories in The Last Vanishing Man are fables of survival and community. His fully relatable characters are up against the same environmental, social, and political problems we all face today. Weird, dark, and wonderful visions and hallucinations from a wholly unique voice. —Jeffrey Ford, World Fantasy, Nebula, Edgar, and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of A Natural History of Hell

“An unforgettable collection of ghost-haunted memory and blighted futures, in the lives of people from the isolated and quietly paranoid to the criminally insane—brutal and beautiful.” —Franz Nicolay, musician The Hold Steady and author of The Humorless Ladies of Border Control and Someone Should Pay for Your Pain

Matthew Cheney's stories know how to make a boy look around on the subway as if to ask people CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?!” —Sam J. Miller, Nebula- and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Boys, Beasts, and Men 

Matthew Cheney is a citizen of those strange lands “beyond the fields we know,” who brings back fever-dream reportage wrapped up in packages both bloody and colorful. - Paul Di Fillipo, Locus Magazine 

Cheney’s stories have a very close relationship with doom, annihilation, the unreachable prospect of solace. God help me, I love that about them! - Adrian Van Young 

Cheney has a talent for the bleak and the beautiful, and it’s well worth losing yourself within. Some of the most disturbing fiction I’ve read in a long time. - Peter Biello, New Hampshire Public Radio 

In Matthew Cheney’s “Hunger” … the well-executed and unexpected ending makes this one special. - Paul Guran, Locus Magazine