NOS4A2 – Hill, Joe

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Book Preview Prologue: Season’s Greetings, December 2008 FCI Englewood, Colorado Shorter Way, 1986–1989 Haverhill, Massachusetts Terry’s Primo Subs Hampton Beach, New Hampshire Haverhill, Massachusetts Sugarcreek, Pennsylvania The Road to Christmasland The Pennsylvania Countryside Haverhill, Massachusetts Haverhill, Massachusetts As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme Disappearances, 1991–1996 The Other End of the Bridge Above Gunbarrel, Colorado … Read more

Last Breath – Hill, Joe

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Book Preview LAST BREATH A family walked in for a look around, a little before noon, a man, a woman, and their son. They were the first visitors of the day—for all Alinger knew they would be the only visitors of the day, the museum was never busy—and he was free to give them the … Read more

In the Tall Grass – Hill, Joe

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Book Preview Thank you for purchasing this Scribner eBook. Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Scribner and Simon & Schuster. Thank you for purchasing this Scribner eBook. Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great … Read more

Horns – Hill, Joe

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Book Preview Joe Hill   Horns                                    To Leanora—love, always             Satan is one of us; so much more so than Adam or Eve.             —MICHAEL C HABON, “O N D AEMONS & D UST” Contents             Epigraph             Hell             Chapter One             IGNATIUS MARTIN PERRISH SPENT the night drunk and doing terrible… … Read more

Heart Shaped Box – Hill, Joe

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Book Preview Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals… a used hangman‟s noose… a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or … Read more

Dead-Wood – Hill, Joe

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Book Preview DEAD-WOOD It has been argued even trees may appear as ghosts. Reports of such manifestations are common in the literature of parapsychology. There is the famous white pine of West Belfry, Maine. It was chopped down in 1842, a towering fir with a white smooth bark like none anyone had ever seen, and … Read more

Dark Carousel – Hill, Joe

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Book Preview It used to be on postcards: the carousel at the end of the Cape Maggie Pier. It was called the Wild Wheel, and it ran fast—not as fast as a roller coaster but quite a bit faster than the usual carousel for kiddies. The Wheel looked like an immense cupcake, its cupola roof … Read more

Ripley Under Water – Highsmith, Patricia

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Book Preview Chapter 1 Tom stood in Georges and Marie’s bar-tabac with a nearly full cup of cafe express in his hand. He had paid, and Heloise’s two packs of Marlboros bulged his jacket pocket. Tom was watching a slot-machine game that someone else was playing. The screen showed a cartoon motorcyclist hurtling into the … Read more

Ripley Under Ground – Highsmith, Patricia

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Book Preview ADDITIONAL BOOKS BY PATRICIA HIGHSMITH PUBLISHED BY W. W. NORTON The Talented Mr. Ripley Ripley’s Game The Boy Who Followed Ripley Ripley Under Water Strangers on a Train The Price of Salt (as Claire Morgan) The Blunderer Deep Water This Sweet Sickness The Glass Cell A Suspension of Mercy A Dog’s Ransom Little … Read more

The Sparrow Sisters – Herrick, Ellen

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Book Preview All stories are true. Some of them actually happened.” Three sisters in the third pew nodded sharply in unison as John Hathaway looked out over his congregation; this made him stutter in an otherwise seamless sermon. Patience Sparrow rocked in the pew until she made her sister Sorrel look away from the altar. … Read more

The Forbidden Garden – Herrick, Ellen

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Book Preview PROLOGUE The garden waited. Behind the yew hedges, beyond the crumbling brick wall, within sight of the ancient house, under skies both heavy and light, the garden waited for someone to save it. Beneath the soil, now emptied of any nourishment, seeds huddled, asleep or worse, and still the garden waited. First there … Read more

The Survivor – Herbert, James

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Book Preview David Keller is the survivor – the only person to escape from the flaming wreckage of a 747 jumbo It was an accident whose aftermath leaves a linger- ing sense of evil and menace in the quiet country- side. Later, strange events begin to occur: a schoolboy is found, decapitated, on a railway … Read more

The Spear – Herbert, James

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Book Preview ‘For myself, I have the most intimate familiarity with Wagner’s mental processes. At every stage in my life I come back to him. Only a new nobility can introduce the new civilization for us. If we strip “Parsifal” of every poetic element, we learn from it that selection and renewal are possible only … Read more