[bksvol-discuss] a slew of scares
- From: "Scott Blanks" <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:40:06 -0700
Hey all,
Thanks to Amazon, the following books will be wending their way to me
through the wonderful postal system sometime in the next couple weeks.
Though they will have to vie for scanner time with a number of other books,
I expect to have them all wrapped up within the next several months.
1. Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob:
Dread in the Beast: The Novel used to be a novella about the goddess of
waste and the king of wasters. Now it is a novel, stuffed full of the
gruesome and
horrible. Taken from the mythologies and histories of humankind, it follows
the trail of the Mother Spirit of the worst that the world is capable of
producing.
From the catacombs of ancient Rome where a blasphemous sect twisted the
message of the early Christians--to modern America with its obsession with
violence,
deities and saints and the reincarnations of beasts battle over sublime and
profane, where the very reasons for existence for us all may lie in the
unthinkable.
2. November Mourns by Tom Piccirilli:
Two years ago Shad Jenkins went to prison for assaulting his sister's
attacker. Now he has returned to the southern mountain town of Moon Run
Hollow, only
to find that Megan is dead. No one knows how she died - or why she was found
on Gospel Trail Road, a dirt path leading up to the gorge high above the
Chatalaha
River, where victims of yellow fever were once brought to die.
Navigating a world filled with abnormal children and clandestine snake
handlers, one that is slowly being poisoned by illegal moonshine, Shad must
pierce
the townsfolk's superstitions and terrible secrets to find out the truth
about his sister's death. But the Blood Dreams he's suffered from since
childhood
have taken on an eerie urgency, revealing to Shad the nightmarish form of an
unseen adversary. Plagued by the wraiths that haunt the hollow, Shad finds
himself increasingly unsure of his own sanity as he begins to piece together
what may have happened to his sister - and who exactly his enemy is...
3. A Manhattan Ghost Story by T.M. Wright:
Tale about an all-pervasive layer
of reality in which the shades of the living mark their days in a listless
state, until finally they fall apart. A commercial photographer gets slowly
pulled, while still living, over to the "other side"--a plight that leads to
a profoundly unsettling and surreal chain of events. "And if you get stuck
in that other city, that other Manhattan, you find yourself getting awfully
desperate and mean-spirited, the way some people are affected by too much
heat
or the crying of small children."
4. Deep In the Darkness by Michael Laimo:
Manhattan physician Michael Cayle moves his family to a small New England
town to begin a private practice and discovers that Ashborough is a town
filled
with unimaginable secrets.
5. Like Death by Tim Waggoner:
Scott Raymond is a man haunted by his past and terrorized in the present. As
a young boy, he witnessed the brutal murder of his family, but there is so
much of the gruesome tragedy that he simply cannot remember - including the
identity of the killer or why Scott alone was spared. The memories won't
come,
but the trauma won't go away.
Scott is an adult now, still emotionally scarred but learning to deal with
it. He has come to Ash Creek to write about a different mystery, a
six-year-old
girl named Miranda who has disappeared in broad daylight one year ago. Here,
Scott meets another girl named Miranda, who bears an uncanny resemblance to
the one who's missing - but this one's a teenager. She will draw Scott into
the bizarre hidden world known as Shadow. A world where nightmares are very
real . . . and very deadly.
6. A Simple Plan by Scott Smith:
Two brothers and a friend find $4 million in the cockpit of a downed plane.
The pilot is dead. No one is looking
for the money. To keep it, all they have to do is wait. It all sounded so
simple.
7. The Museum of Horrors Edited by Dennis Etchison:
A collection of short stories by authors such as Melanie Tem, Charles L.
Grant, Peter Straub, Richard Laymon, and more.
8. Naomi by Douglas Clegg:
The subways of Manhattan are only the first stage of Jake Richmond's descent
into the vast subterranean passageways beneath the city -- and the discovery
of a mystery and a terror greater than any human being could imagine.
Naomi went into the tunnels to destroy herself...but found an even more
terrible fate awaiting her in the twisting corridors. And now, the man who
loves
Naomi must find her...and bring her back to the world of the living, a world
where a New York brownstone holds a burial ground of those accused of
witchcraft,
where the secrets of the living may be found within the ancient diary of a
witch, and where a creature known only as the Serpent has escaped its bounds
at last.
9. When We Dead Awaken by John R. Holt:
The story of a family cursed, cursed by sins of the past, and perhaps a
fierce soul from the past who just won't die.
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