Biografi is an imaginative melding of travelogue and fable that sparked controversy on its release.When Lloyd Jones visited Albania in 1991, six years after the death of dictator Enver Hoxha, he heard rumours of a village dentist who looked like the dictator and had been forced to give up his identity and become his public double. Jones' quest to find Petar Schapallo gives shape not only to an intriguing traveller's tale, but a story about identity-changed, lost or falsified-in a country where identity was strictly controlled.Part travel narrative, part imaginative fiction, Biografi is an inquiry into the nature of identity itself.'A fine piece of work, rich in startling detail.' Age Views: 122
To get away from city life periodically, New Yorker Roger Locke purchases an abandoned farm house in rural Connecticut, and with the assistance of his cousin Phillida and her beau Ethan Vere, he sets about fixing up the place.
Immediately however, an unseen mysterious woman begins giving him warnings during nocturnal visits to leave the house at once. Soon he begins hearing strange ominous sounds emanating from the tiny lake at the back of the house coupled with a permeation of sickly odors. An evil presence then begins to visit him during the witching hours of the late night, challenging him to a battle of wits from which there can be only one victor.
Is his mysterious female visitor there to help and encourage him to flee from the house, or is she working in tandem with The Thing From the Lake?
A gripping, occasionally frightening tale, Ms. Ingram wastes no time in grabbing the reader into the story and manages to weave a tale that will leave the reader guessing at every turn of events. (Summary by Roger Melin)(from Librivox) Views: 122
It begins as an innocent prank: Deena Martinson and her best friend, Jade Smith, make sexy phone calls to the boys from school. But Deena's half-brother, Chuck, catches them in the act and threatens to tell their parents--unless the girls let him in on the fun. Chuck begins making random calls, threatening anyone who answers. It's dangerous and exciting. The teens are even enjoying the publicity and the uproar they've caused.Until Chuck calls a number on Fear Street. Views: 121
Meet Laura. She's the tall girl holding two stray cats. Laura loves caring for animals. But lately, the animals in the forest near her home have been acting strange. Bats swarm and attack in broad daylight. On her walks, Laura hears eerie howls and inhuman cries. And now, she is about to meet another animal. An animal so ugly and evil, it can only be described as a creature. Poor Laura. Sometimes a path through the forest can lead to The Nightmare Room Views: 121
At the end of The Day of the Triffids, the hero,
Bill Masen, his wife, and four-year-old son leave the British mainland to join a
new colony on the Isle of Wight. The Night of the Triffids takes up the
story 25 years later. David Masen, the now grown-up son of Bill, is a pilot,
still searching for a method of destroying the implacable triffid plant as it
continues its worldwide march, seemingly intent on wiping out humankind. David
eventually manages to reach New York, where a very different sort of colony has
been set up, a colony whose members seem to be immune to the triffid string and
where David comes face to face with an old enemy from his father's past.
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From Publishers Weekly
In John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1951),
mankind is overtaken-and much of it blinded-by the demonic walking plant of the
title, a monster created in a lab in an act of Cold War profiteering. Clark
(Vampyrrhic, etc.) picks up the story more than 25 years later, puts a
new narrator at the helm and spins a brisk and engaging adventure-cum-horror
yarn. Clark's narrator is David Masen, son of scientist Bill Masen (the
protagonist from Wyndham's book). The Masen family, along with a handful of
other survivors, has set up an outpost on the Isle of Wight, and have gone about
rebuilding society. A major part of this renewal involves a particularly bizarre
idea called the Mother House, a convent-like home where women spend their lives
giving birth over and over again. All seems well, until one morning when the sun
doesn't rise and the triffids, long thought condemned to the mainland, attack.
Clearly marketed as a genre horror title, this crafty continuation is elegant in
its construction. Clark's prose is clean, thoughtful and perfectly suited to his
faux doomsday-memoir approach. Less cautionary than the original, but more
literary than many books of its ilk, this is a truly enjoyable voyage.
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From Library Journal
A quarter of a century after an invasion by the deadly
alien plants known as triffids blinded most of the world's human population and
caused the collapse of civilization, only a small colony of survivors on the
Isle of Wight continues to preserve what they can of society and culture. When a
new phenomenon arises, resulting in the darkening of the atmosphere, pilot David
Masen, the son of the colony's founder, sets out to discover the source of the
problem-and encounters a new group of technologically advanced survivors from
across the Atlantic. Continuing the classic tale of alien invasion begun 25
years ago in John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, Clark envisions a
world poised to fight back against their invaders. Winner of the 2002 British
Fantasy Award for Best Novel, he retains a feel for SF pulp horror in an
action-filled tale that captures the spirit of the original story. Recommended
for most SF collections.
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'The hottest new purveyor of horrific thrills currently
working on these shores.'
-Big Issue
'A master of eerie thrills.'
-Richard Laymon
'NIGHT OF THE TRIFFIDS, essentially a story of good
versus evil, is an intriguing and enjoyable sequel that should delight
appreciators of Wyndham's work.'
-The Third Alternative
'A definite confirmation of this author's growing
reputation as one of the top genre novelists around today.'
-Starburst
'Readers will relish Clark's uncomplicated cocktail of
chlorophyl and human blood.'
-Financial Times Views: 121
The deck is stacked--for evil! Brittany has picked a joker. And that's no laughing matter, because these jokers are deadly. But when you get all four suits, the trouble really starts. Because that's when the joker plays for keeps! Views: 121
A brand new e-only standalone story from New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow. When the world falls apart, Lydia knows all you need is a gun and a dog. Unfortunately, she's going to find out that's not quite enough...Word Count: ~ 7,100 Views: 121
Enter another realm in the amazing world of the Humanx Commonwealth--the interstellar empire governed jointly by humans and aliens!The newly discovered planet of Senisran was a veritable paradise--a sprawling world of vast oceans dotted with thousands of lush islands and copious deposits of rare-earths and minerals. First-contact specialist Pulickel Tomochelor's mission to Senisran was straightforward: Secure mining rights for the Humanx Commonwealth before the vicious AAnn Empire beat them to the chase. With Senisran's Parramat clan resisting entreaty, negotiations could be difficult, but Pulickel was more comfortable with aliens than with his own species, and looked forward to a triumphant return to Earth.He hadn't counted on the incredible secret of Parramat, though: the strange, powerful green stones that the tribe used to manipulate the forces of nature. Within those stones lay an awesome technology the origin of which was lost in time--a technology that... Views: 121
