Lurking at the edges of this extravagant tale is the ancient entity known as "Agonistes," who accepts the pleas of selected "Supplicants," transforming them, through a combination of art, magic, and pain, into avatars of violence and ...
At the heart of these stories are two savage, seemingly inexplicable atrocities, each of which reaches across the centuries to reflect and connect with the other.
A 200,000 word gathering of the best short stories of Jack McDevitt!
This expanded edition features every story included in the original, an excerpt from an unpublished zombie novel, and 11 additional stories (most of them uncollected) written early in Partridge's career -- including a collaboration with ...
A gripping horror novel whose motley cast of characters drink the evening away in a seedy bar, Eddie's Tavern, in a dying town called Milestone.
Hell on Earth. The Lost Bloch
While visiting Charles Town in the Carolina colony, Matthew Corbett joins a manhunt for three escaped slaves traveling up the River of Solstice where he encounters alligators, Native Americans, and a killer.
John Crowley's masterful novels (Aegypt, Little, Big, The Translator) are marked by an uncommon combination of imaginative power and intellectual rigor.
All three versions are presented in this edition. The idea is to discover what happened during the process, how much the story changed while passing through two other minds and another language To see if The Gist survived.
He has also written in collaboration with his brother, Joe, a number of comic scripts for IDW based on the stories of Robert Bloch.
But, as readers of this series will already know, events in the lives of Hap and Leonard rarely stay simple for long.
Unavailable for far too long, Act of Love makes a welcome reappearance in this deluxe anniversary edition, which includes the definitive text of the novel, a new introduction by the author, and a never before published short story featuring ...
The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent: Early Stories and Commentary
The narrator looks back to his memories of 1933, when his family faced a difficult time in the Depression and a giant boar terrorized the local farmers by killing their livestock and hunting dogs
Waltz of Shadows: A Novel of Suspense
Collects several of the author's tales, including a story that probes the disturbed mind of a mass murderer and a tale about a world where the dead almost rule.
Here is an overlooked world and a cast of real folks that prove unforgettable, all rendered in one of American fiction's most authentic voices.
The result is a tightly compressed novella that is at once harrowing, hilarious, and utterly impossible to put down. The story begins with a barroom brawl that is both brutal and oddly comic.
For a Few Stories More
The volume opens with "Torn Away," in which a small town sheriff encounters a man on the run from his own predatory shadow. The stories that follow come from all points of the narrative compass.