INDIE
Released: May 28, 2010
"Slightly limited by its style, but nonetheless a charming and haunting read."
Six chilling stories that bring the Gothic style of writing popularized in the 18th and 19th centuries into the 20th and 21st.
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FICTION
Released: May 27, 2010
"Bruce Allen."
Shirley Jackson (1916–65) was a complicated woman—a hardworking faculty wife and mother of four and a productive writer both energized and enervated by a macabre sensibility that doubtless worsened the poor health that led to a fatal heart attack in her 49th year.
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INDIE
Released: May 24, 2010
"A taxing text, but readers prepared to do the work will find some grand and gripping concepts here."
A war erupts on a heaven-like planet and spills over to Earth, embroiling a cast of characters in the desperate birth of a new age for mankind.
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FICTION
Released: May 18, 2010
"A paranormal thriller begging for a slot in airport bookshops."
There are secret agents and then there are
secret agents, like the undead predator protecting the White House.
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FICTION
Released: May 11, 2010
"Stylish, dark and tense."
Another moody Agent Pendergast novel from powerhouse duo Preston and Child (
The Book of the Dead, 2006, etc.).
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INDIE
Released: April 24, 2010
"Both haunted and haunting
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FICTION
Released: March 2, 2010
"The book's grotesque joviality should be fun for those looking for it."
FICTION
Released: March 1, 2010
"Fans of Allen's brand of romantic whimsy won't mind the inconsistencies and lapses of logic, but others may cringe at the implausibility."
In Allen's newest sugar-and-spice Southern fantasy (
The Sugar Queen, 2008, etc.), a teenage girl comes to live with her grandfather in a small town where oddity is a way of life.
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INDIE
Released: Feb. 25, 2010
"Twisted and entertaining, this broad story of revenge is multi-faceted but close to the surface--a bug's eye view into the darkness of the human soul."
A spirit takes the form of a white spider to alter the destinies of several Japanese villagers in this supernatural thriller set in the wake of World War II.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2010
"Hagy's images of Wyoming are a bit too muted to be fully engaging, but her writing is consistently provocative and informed. "
An assortment of carefully tuned stories marked by hauntings, curious incidents and hard Western landscapes.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2010
"A bit jumbled, but entertaining and potentially a good start for a series offering a different take on the undead craze."
FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2010
"Straub's last few fantasies (In the Night Room, 2004, etc.) have been ever more baroque, but this tall, dark tale beats them all for heaven-storming scale and wheels within wheels."
A successful novelist obsessively revisits a fateful night he missed back in the '60s in this intense, ambitious, but unfocused saga of an encounter with ultimate evil.
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