"This is a story about a terrible thing which happens to me. I have to warn you that nobody is bad or good here, or rather everyone is a bit bad and a bit good and the bad and the good moluscules get mixed up against each other and produce terrible chemical reactions. Did you know cheetahs cannot retract their claws?"Six-year-old Billy loves animals, David Attenborough documentaries, and sneakers that flash when he runs. He does not love sitting still, the blood-soaked sky in Watership Down, or his father's cell phone.When Billy runs into a busy street, ignoring his father's commands, he sets in motion a series of unexpected, family-altering events. What I Did is a heart-wrenching reminder of how best intentions can lead to disastrous consequences, and how one rash decision can take on a life of its own. Views: 11
The first in a trilogy. Get out your tape recorders, crystals, and extra batteries— you're about to go where our world meets the spirit world.Psychic Kids, Paranormal State, Haunting Evidence—these and countless other television shows are making believers out of millions of people: Ghosts exist, and they're living right beside us. For centuries, individuals have been trying to prove the existence of ghosts. But without hard evidence, it's been difficult to make the case. But now as science and technology have progressed, ghost hunters have been able to use scientific means, along with more traditional psychic tools, to make their case. Photographs, video recordings, and sound recordings are all producing some amazing results.In this new series, Ghost Huntress, meet Kendall Moorehead, a seemingly typical teen. When her family moves from Chicago to the small historical town of Radisson, Georgia, her psychic abilities awaken. She's hearing, feeling, and seeing... Views: 10
YOUR HEALTH IS YOUR ONLY TREASURE …
These words buoy Mike as he recuperates in Thermalene,
the shell of an abandoned turn-of-the-century spa. Pitched from a speeding
Cadillac when the deal went bad, he has come to this haven at the edge of his
life.
The waters here are said to heal. But in this Oregon
desert all is dry and dead-and Mike will be too, unless the waters' powers are
for real.
The desert souls and parched dreams within this book are
real and frightful, and demonstrate the exceptional literary prowess that has
made K. W. Jeter one of today's most important young writers.
1993 Locus Poll Award (Best Horror/Dark Fantasy
Novel, place: 10).
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From Kirkus Reviews
Gritty, spare but rather empty horror yarn from the
author of Dr. Adder, Farewell, Horizontal, Infernal
Devices, etc. Vicious drug-dealer Aitch and his reluctant sidekick Charlie
beat their erstwhile partner Mike, a doctor and drug addict, to a pulp, then
throw him from a car in the high desert of eastern Oregon following an attempted
double-cross. Brought, barely alive, to an abandoned spa resort by a concerned
trucker, Mike suffers wild dreams of bodies splitting asunder, and of an ancient
doctor waving a scalpel-who subsequently appears alive, bathing in a pool of the
spa's sulfurous water. Mike too bathes and drinks, and is healed in body, indeed
possessed of extraordinary strength. The old doctor, Nelder, tells him that the
water is an ancient evil, somehow alive-and it likes Mike. Enthralled by the
horrid dreams conferred by the water, Mike now attacks his girlfriend, Lindy,
whom he phones for help before drinking the water, and the trucker's son, Doot,
who has also helped him. He mutilates the hapless Lindy, breaks Nelder, revenges
himself bloodily on Aitch and Mike, then threatens Doot-who, somehow, acquires
the water's powers and rips Mike apart while himself remaining uncontaminated by
the evil. Jeter can write, and his tightly controlled individual scenes succeed,
often handsomely. But the overall picture-the slender plot, the repulsive yet
uninteresting atrocities, uncertain character motivations, and the improbable
desires of the sentient spa-doesn't add up. Gripping in patches, then, but the
patches conceal a number of leaks.
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"Wolf Mow by K. W. Jeter is characterized by a
somber elegance that is Jeter's own trademark. The pace never lets up. This book
grabs you and pulls you irresistibly into a disturbing and splendidly delineated
world. Jeter details his story with hallucinogenic clarity. Don't miss this
one!"
-Robert Sheckley
"Jeter's is one of the most impressive bodies of work in
my field today. Sometimes reminiscent of noir fiction but far darker,
oppressively intense and hallucinatorily vivid, deeply felt and unflinchingly
honest, these books are what I believe contemporary horror fiction should
be."
-Ramsey Campbell
"K. W. Jeter sees through the human to the grotesque
underneath, a singular kind of vision that grabs you on the first page,
fascinates and terrifies you all the way through, and haunts you long after the
last page is over."
-Pat Cadigan
"Jeter is a writer who resists categorization in genres
obsessed with categorization, and there is a steely consistency in the worldview
through which his fiction is filtered. It produces novels which are densely
textured, bleak but with a saving note of grace, and edged with razor-sharp
sarcasms generated by a refusal to accept genre tropes, to take shared
assumptions at face value."
-Paul J. McAuley
"The best of the 'new' horror writers today."
-Joe R. Lansdale Views: 10
Review"I've read Call Me three times. Need I say more? How about this: Five Stars!""Five Smiling Stars for Call Me! --An electrifying mystery-thriller with all the twists, turns, and good-hearted humor Locke's fans have come to expect from his Donovan Creed and Emmett Love novels."Call Me is full of heart and humor, and destined to become a hit TV series! I can't think of a better way to spend an afternoon than to read this exceptional novel. You're going to love these wonderful characters. Escapism at its best! Five Big Stars!" Product DescriptionSynopsis for Call Me!A beautiful, young private detective supports herself by posing as bait for men whose wives suspect them of cheating. On the side, she hunts for the notorious killer, ManChild. New York Times Best Selling Author John Locke was the 8th author in history to sell more than one million books on Amazon/Kindle.His books sold more than 1,720,000 copies in 2011. Views: 10
STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS Long believed to be just a Nalori myth, the shii has turned out to he devastatingly real! The monster -- seemingly invulnerable, undeniably powerful, and completely rutbless -- as carved a swath through the Nalori construction project on the crystal planet of Sarindar. The project's supervisor, Commander Sonya Gomez, must find a way to stop the deadly creature before It destroys the entire project and its workers. But when the truth behind the shii is revealed, Gomez realizes that even one of the S.C.E.'s top officers may not be able to solve every problem... The exciting conclusion to the gripping, all-new two-pail adventure! Views: 10
Nothing if not resilient, Celia Graves is slowly adjusting to being a half-human, half-vampire Abomination. But her troubles are far from over. Her best friend’s murder is still unsolved, the cops are convinced she should be in jail, and her old lover, the magician Bruno DeLuca, has resurfaced in her life, saying he has something important to tell her.The vampire attack that transformed Celia kicked her latent Siren abilities into high gear, and now she’s been summoned to the Sirens’ island to justify her existence—and possibly fight for her life—in front of the Siren Queen. Celia isn’t sure she’ll survive to make the trip. The demon she defeated in Blood Song hasn’t exactly gone quietly—he’s left Celia suffering from a powerful curse. Views: 10
On the night of the Party at the Mystery Shack, Dipper discovers a way to clone himself and thinks he's found the key to finally wooing Wendy. But will Dipper muster up the courage to ask her to dance? Or will his clones get jealous and turn on him? Then, when Lil' Gideon knocks Mabel out of the "friend zone" and into the "romance zone," Mabel can't turn him down! Will Dipper help Mabel break up with Lil' Gideon? Or will Mabel become Lil' Gideon's lil' girlfriend? Readers will love this chapter book filled with art from the show. Views: 10
Originally published in Cuba by Editorial Letras Cubanas, Havana, under the title El Arpa y la Sombra, 1979 Views: 10
Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light...Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap. The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square... Views: 10
American orphan Isobel Rowland is the illegitimate daughter of an English aristocrat brought to England from her home in America. When the Marquess of Hartforde learns that Isobel and promising musician Ian Rowland are the same person, their lives collide and before long, they have no choice but to marry and attempt to make a life together. Views: 10
