Book Preview THEY RODE WEST FROM THE SLAUGHTER, through the painted desert, and did not stop until they were a hundred miles away. Finally, in the early afternoon, they turned in at a diner with a white stucco exterior and pumps on concrete islands out front. The overlapping thunder of their engines shook the plate-glass … Read more
Book Preview Inspiration: J. K. Rowling, whose stories showed me how to write this one, P. L. Travers, who had the medicine I needed, Julie Andrews, who had a spoonful of sugar to help me swallow it, Ray Bradbury, from whom I stole my title, my father, from whom I stole all the rest, and … Read more
Book Preview Guide Cover Contents Chapter 1 ii iii iv v vi 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 … Read more
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
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
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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
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
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
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