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Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Joey Shannon is a 40-something alcoholic on the road to nowhereand haunted by his abandoned dream of being a writer. His failure is painfully underscored by the success of P.J., his charismatic brother, who earns international fame as the Kerouac of the nineties. P.J. grew into the man Joey always wanted to be. If only Joey could relive the past, go back in time, choose a different highway. When his father dies. Joey unexpectedly gets the second chance....
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Nine of the hottest paranormal fiction writers, L. A. Banks, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, P. N. Elrod, Esther M. Friesner, Lori Handeland, Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Susan Krinard, present a delightful collection of supernatural wedding stories. From coming up with a seating plan for rival clans of werewolves and vampires to dealing with a wedding singer who's just a little too good at impersonating Elvis, this tome is sure to charm listeners....
8) Rag: stories
Author
Publisher
FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the author of Heartbreaker, a disquieting collection tracing the destructive consequences of the desire for connection.
A man, forgotten by the world, takes care of his deaf brother while euthanizing dogs for a living. A stepbrother so desperately wants to become his stepsibling that he rapes his girlfriend. In Maryse Meijers decidedly dark and searingly honest collection Rag, the desperate human desire for connection slips into a realm that...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A spine-tingling new collection of stories from the acclaimed author of Thrill Me and The Dark Net. Benjamin Percy is a versatile and propulsive storyteller whose genre-busting novels and story collections have ranged from literary to thriller to postapocalyptic. In his essay collection, Thrill Me, he laid bare for readers how and why he channels disparate influences in his work. Now, in his first story collection since the acclaimed Refresh, Refresh,...
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Showcases 12 writers called "The Group" who in the 1950s and 1960s established the roots of today's science fiction and fantasy. Includes nine original stories and classic reprints ranging from science fiction to fantasy, crime to horror, the Wild West to small-town America.
Author
Publisher
Holt Paperbacks/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales."--Front flap.
A collection of darkly playful stories based on classic folk and fairy tales (but with a feminist spin) that find the sinister in the familiar and the familiar in the alienfrom Mallory Ortberg, author of Texts From Jane Eyre. From Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from her beloved "Children's...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
To explain the millennial shift away from the traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers twentieth-century...
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