Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she hated and begat a child she could never love. Now Ellen has a new life, a new husband and two normal children. Memory is drowned in alcohol and prayers--neither of which will save her kids when the carnival comes back to town. A premiere release by the bestselling author of Dragon Tears. Views: 50
In a theocratic world far into the future, cities control their own movements and organization. Constantly moving, growing and decaying, taking care of every need their inhabitants might think of, the cities have decided that humans are no longer a necessary part of their architecture, casting them out to wander in the wilderness and eke out a meager subsistence. To the exiled humans, the cities represent a paradisiacal Eden, a reminder of all they cannot attain due to their sinful and unworthy natures. But things are beginning to change. People are no longer willing to allow the cities to keep them out, choosing instead to force an entry and plunder at will. While the cities are starting to crumble and die because they have no purpose or reason to continue living without citizens. One woman, called mad by some and wise by others, is the only human allowed to inhabit a city. From her lonely and precarious position at the heart of one of the greatest cities ever, she must... Views: 50
Book Description"Over the years I have been proud to write about the men and women of the
American frontier. But I have written many stories with entirely different
settings which I have long wanted to share with my readers."I have
collected some of these in YONDERING. They are glimpses of what my own life was
like during the early years. Those were the rough years; often I was hungry,
out of work and facing situations such as I have written about."Although
these stories take place in a variety of locales, they are stories of people
living under conditions similar to the way they might have lived on the
frontier. I hope you'll enjoy YONDERING."--Louis L'Amour(224 pages) Views: 50
Product DescriptionA classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain's greatest children's novelists Four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that is now disappeared. Craftsmen pass on, or withhold, secrets of their relationship with the natural world, which gives them the material from which they create useful and beautiful things. Smiths and chandlers, steeplejacks and quarrymen, all live and work hand in hand with the seasons, the elements and the land. There is a mutual respect and a knowledge of the magical here that somehow, somewhere was lost to us. These fables beautifully recapture and restore it to us. And a very particular landscape, on the outskirts of industrial Manchester, is brought vividly to life. About the AuthorAlan Garner is one of Britain's greatest living writers for children, the author of such classics as Elidor and The Owl Service. He has done much to explore the disappearing beliefs & traditions of agricultural England. In 1996 he published an acclaimed and unsettling novel for adults, Strandloper (Harvill). Views: 50
Sam has made it most of the way through sixth grade, barely able to read and write, but now Sam's family have moved again and he is faced with the prospect of attending a new school. How long will he be able to keep his problem secret? Views: 48
An original folk-tale trilogy with roots in Welsh and Irish mythology recounts the boyhood deeds of Finn-witchson, bastard, and heir to kingdoms both on land and undersea--who was hidden away by the witches of the north.Notable for its dense, at times almost impenetrable prose and dream-like imagery, on release Hazel's novel was compared to works of Patricia A. McKillip and Gene Wolfe. Views: 48
An inspired story of growing up ordinary—and extraordinary—in the Boston suburbs. Meeting Rozzy Halfway follows a family falling apart at the seams when one daughter descends into madness and the second daughter tries to protect her. A shattering story of love, power and madness. Views: 47
Nancy Drew has entered a contest to solve an old mystery-the disappearance of a Flemish nobleman, a pair of lace cuffs, and a priceless treasure. In a thrilling story shadowed by a romance of the past, Nancy solves a mystery over a hundred years in the making.While in Belgium investigating the mystery surrounding an antique cross, Nancy and her friends learn that her entry in a short story contest may somehow be involved. Views: 47
THE ZONE 1 • HARD TARGET The Zone, a chemical and nuclear contaminated hell, a broad swathe of Europe where the Warsaw Pact mass attacks have been stalled by NATO. Major Revells’men have to enter it to destroy a Russian tank workshop concealed in the midst of a refugee camp. SYNOPSIS Major Revells’ tank hunter team are given the suicidal task of hunting down and destroying a crack Russian tank repair workshop. The elite unit is upgrading weapons and armour, getting it ready for a massed assault on the NATO front line. Crossing the severely contaminated terrain of the Zone the Special Combat Force have to enter the dangerous world of the refugees to find their target. They encounter a renegade group of East German deserters, the reviled Grepos, border guards. Through them they discover that the workshop has been sited underground, close to a huge refugee camp. Invulnerable to assault by any conventional means without unacceptable civilian losses, Revells’ men have to risk everything to attack at point blank range. PUBLISHED First NEL Paperback Edition November 1980 First IMPRINT Publication E-Book Edition May 2005 First Revision IMPRINT Publications E-Book Edition April 2007 Views: 46
Most bridegrooms don’t expect to be called “an insufferable toad” the day after their wedding. But Lady Clayborne had provocation enough from his lordship, though she had no idea why he had the ludicrous notion she was not a virgin. Rebecca was not content to be a wife in name only—and Jason was not willing to be deceived. Regency Romance by Laura Matthews; originally published by Warner and Signet Views: 46
WAS THE DEMONIC ENTITY WHO RULED THE ISLAND TRULY SATANIC, OR MERELY A MALEVOLENT ALIEN?
On an isolated island, seven people with a desperate need for money play a game conceived by an intelligence of perfect evil. The rules are simple: each player will perform an act; each of the others must duplicate it, or be eliminated. All that the players have in common is their desperation. One is a mercenary soldier with a taste for proving his manhood through self-torture. Another is a porno-starlet. A third is a perfectly ordinary mother whose seven-year-old's life depends on a million-dollar medical treatment... Each of the seven thinks he or she will do anything... all but one of them are wrong. Views: 46
Charles L. Grant - IntroductionDavis Grubb - The Brown RecluseBruce Frances - To See You With, My DearRay Russell - Avenging AngelR. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Ghost Who LimpedJuleen Brantingham - Janey's SmileBarry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini - Opening A VeinWilliam F. Nolan - The PartnershipPat Murphey - Wish HoundPeter D. Pautz - AntAlan Ryan - Tell Mommy What HappenedSteve Rasnic Tem - At The BureauChelsea Quinn Yarbro - Cabin 33Not-so-'Quiet Horror' collection, includes:Davis Grubb - The Brown Recluse:
Every year the six-strong West Virginia Chapter of the Baker Street
Irregulars award a beautiful Persian Slipper to the member who solves a
crime for which the wrong person has been prosecuted. Much to one-legged
spinster Ms. Ellen Lathrop's consternation, Charles Gribble, the town
banker, local pillar of society and the only lover she ever had, has
retained the award since it's inception - he must be in cahoots with
Sheriff Voitle or something. Ms. Lathrop detests Gribble, or the
"brown recluse" as she thinks of him after the area's most venomous
spider, not least because he called her a "cripple" during their final
row all those years ago. That slipper is rightfully hers and she must
win it to grace her shapely right foot, and not just for a year but in
perpetuary! But the only way to do that is to solve a murder - and Glory
is such a trouble-free community. Then Gribble's employee Jim
Smitherman is battered to death with a brick in the fog ...R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Ghost Who Limped:
Mother and father dote on seven year old Brian at the expense of his
sensitive, sixteen year old sister, Julia, who can never do anything
right. Their garden is haunted by a benign spook, 'Mr. Miss-One' (as in
'miss one step' on account of his limp) who is entirely oblivious to
their presence as he goes about weeding his invisible flowerbeds and
washing his ghost car. Unfortunately, being a Goth has yet to be
invented (even the punk explosion is further away than at first appears)
so Julia wills herself to fall in love with him and, after another
blazing row in which she finally lets slip that she hates her mother,
the family send her to Coventry. Julia decides that if Mr Miss-One can't
come to her, she will go to him, and sets off to the garage to hang
herself ....To say any more would be to ruin it, but Mike Ashley has described The Ghost Who Limped as "possibly his best" and it's certainly as good as anything of R. C-H's I've read up until now.Ray Russell - Avenging Angel:
"Silone stressed the ugly, specialising in vomit-encrusted wino's
sleeping it off in doorways, bloated prostitutes with grotesque, leering
masks for faces, and several gratuitously nauseating crucifixions
scenes ... Silone equated this ugliness with Truth, 'telling it like it
is'. To be blunt, he had ego but no talent.A clever variation on The Picture Of Dorian Gray
as Orlando 'No Baloney!' Silone, self-reverential, hypocritical artist,
receives his just desserts after making a disgusting exhibition of
himself and his lousy work at the Challenge Gallery where his deluded
young fans have amassed to be fleeced by 'The Master' yet again. When a
shy young girl with one arm presents her hero with the portrait she's
poured her heart into, he dismisses it as trash, lobs a half-eaten
burger at it and tells her to get lost if she's not gonna pay for a nice
signed photocopy of his latest masterpiece. As ketchup runs down the
face, something nasty begins to happen to the original ....Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini - Opening A Vein:
Short whimsical piece. The last living creature on earth is a vampire
who duly summons the Devil and begs for blood. The Devil points out
that, being one of the undead, he no longer has a soul to barter but
then relents. The vampire gorges himself on Satan's blood, becomes the
new Devil, begins the cycle of creation all over again. Bruce Frances - To See You With, My Dear:
"If you don't do what you've been told, you're not going to get to
sleep tonight. And if you do fall asleep, you'll be sorry. That could be
bad, hmm? It will, I promise."Lisa Gleason loves husband David
as he does her but, of late, his tiresome little games have taken on a
cruel twist. Now she's all snuggly settled in bed he's insistent that
she's left the light on downstairs and must go switch it off. When she
turns over, he attacks her, tearing the nightdress from her back, a
lunatic red blaze in his eyes. The guy needs psychiatric help before
it's too late ... but for which of them?
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