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A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics)
Published: May 21, 2026
ISBN: 9781807840594
112 pages
Country of publication: United Kingdom

£9.99

A man is cast by an unfamiliar God into a vast, incomprehensible Hell – a labyrinth library of books containing the stories of every life ever lived.

His only way out is to find the single book that tells his own story. But along the seemingly infinite shelves lies every possible combination of letters. Trapped within this maze of meaninglessness, the absurdity of existence becomes impossible to ignore.

A life-changing, existential novella, Steven L. Peck’s modern classic explores a subversive vision of eternity, taking the reader on a journey through the afterlife of a world where everything everyone believed in turns out to be wrong.

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