Book Preview Cover Title Page Copyright Map Chapter 1: Atop an Ivory Tower Crammed Perilously Close with Foine Books Chapter 2: Surrounded by Lush Locks of Hair Not Entirely Unlike Spun Silk Chapter 3: Flooded with Gallons of Steaming Failure and Pistachio Macarons Chapter 4: Flabbergasted in a Smoke-Filled Tent Chapter 5: High Above the … Read more
Book Preview Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Map 1: In a Cave Just Positively Riddled with Blood and Gecko Toes 2: Beset by Naked Halfling Malice 3: Beneath the Sweaty Onion Flesh of a Rogue 4: Across the Lea and Fuming in the Tenebrous Darkness 5: On the Dew-Slobbered Slopes of the Honeymelon Hills 6: … Read more
Book Preview Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Map Chapter 1: In a Foreboding Tower, Glowing with Portent or Possibly Pollen Chapter 2: In a Squalid Barnyard in Borix, Redolent of Feces and Angst Chapter 3: In the Tower of Toby, the Dark Lord, He Who Dreams of Artisanal Crackers Chapter 4: At a Time and … Read more
Book Preview ‘**** – Fris, ontroerend, spannend, onvoorspelbaar, geestig en een van de effectiefste Amerikaanse thrillers van de laatste tijd.’ – NRC Handelsblad Op haar zestiende werd Tessa Cartwright door een seriemoordenaar voor dood achtergelaten op een akker in Texas, samen met de lichamen van drie andere slachtoffers. Ze was de enige overlevende, met slechts … Read more
Book Preview Time, it is a tapestry Threads that weave it number three These be known, from first to last, Future, Present, and the Past Present, Future, weft-thread be Fleeting in inconstancy Yet the colors they do add Serve to make the heart be glad Past, the warp-thread that it be Sets the path of … Read more
Book Preview To the great Ward Evers, who was the godfather of this series, who dreamt it into being at NOLA in the French Quarter during the ALA Conference of 1993 over uncounted Dixie Blackened Voodoos, and who insisted that medieval music, string theory of physics, archeology, anthropology, herbalism, and linguistics could, in fact, be … Read more
Book Preview Time, it is a tapestry Threads that weave it number three These be known, from first to last, Future, Present, and the Past Present, Future, weft-thread be Fleeting in inconstancy Yet the colors they do add Serve to make the heart be glad Past, the warp-thread that it be Sets the path of … Read more
Book Preview 17 U.S.C. 107 permits copyrighted material to be used under the “fair use” doctrine without any permission from the copyright owner. As such, as far as these files are concerned, they are CLIPS, or LOW QUALITY REPRODUCTIONS of material; As such they should not be used as substitutes for retail copies of the … Read more
Book Preview Many thanks to three sets of innkeepers whose hospitality was inspirational in the places I visited while researching this book: The Taste of Alaska Lodge, Fairbanks, Alaska Quagmire Manor, Homer, New York King’s Inn, Huntsville, Alabama WE are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting … Read more
Book Preview The Symphony Of Ages Series Book 04 WE are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world forever, it seems. With -wonderful deathless ditties … Read more
Book Preview The Symphony Of Ages Series Book 03 The seven-and-a-half-foot-tall monster in ring mail threw back his head, bared tusklike fangs, and roared. The bellowing howl of rage rang through the darkness that clung to the toothlike, mountainous crags, sending loose shale stone and clods of snow tumbling down into the canyon a mile … Read more
Book Preview The Symphony Of Ages Series Book 02 THE PROPHECY OF THE THREE The Three shall come, leaving early, arriving late, The lifestages of all men: Child of Blood, Child of Earth, Child of the Sky. Each man, formed in blood and born in it, Walks the Earth and sustained by it, Reaching to … Read more
Book Preview The Symphony Of Ages Series Book 02 THE PROPHECY OF THE THREE The Three shall come, leaving early, arriving late, The lifestages of all men: Child of Blood, Child of Earth, Child of the Sky. Each man, formed in blood and born in it, Walks the Earth and sustained by it, Reaching to … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1 A private plane sits on a runway in Martha’s Vineyard, forward stairs deployed. It is a nine-seat OSPRY 700SL, built in 2001 in Wichita, Kansas. Whose plane it is is hard to say with real certainty. The ownership of record is a Dutch holding company with a Cayman Island mailing address, … Read more
Book Preview • • • She’s buried beneath a silver birch tree, down towards the old train tracks, her grave marked with a cairn. Not more than a little pile of stones, really. I didn’t want to draw attention to her resting place, but I couldn’t leave her without remembrance. She’ll sleep peacefully there, no one to … Read more
Book Preview Annotation A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future. In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf’s inimitable fiction, Addie Moore … Read more
Book Preview QUANTUM ENTRAPMENT Droplets of blood pat the blue carpet, turning from red to black as they soak into the fibers. The drops come slow at first, before turning to a trickle as the bones of my skull squeeze like a hand around my brain. My body yearns to release the tension in my … Read more
Book Preview PRAISE FOR JOE HART We Sang in the Dark “Joe Hart is one of the most exciting and consistently entertaining horror writers to come along in years. If you haven’t yet read his work, I’d advise you to rectify that oversight posthaste. Trust me, you’ll be glad you did. Hart’s is an old-school … Read more