Wherein things that can’t happen and ought not to happen do happen...!
DASHIELL HAMMETT, in The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, etc., set a new standard for mystery stories. In the present selection he sets up a standard of excellence in...
Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.
“Sometimes the universe throws you...
Dru Anderson has what her grandmother called 'the touch. (Comes in handy when you're traveling from town to town with your dad, hunting ghosts, suckers, wulfen, and the occasional zombie.)
Then her dad turns up dead — but still walking...
“A DARKNESS IS COMING.” The girl’s voice spoke doom. “There are shadows on Easter Hill. That is why it is happening. That is why Fluter is dying.”
Jessica cried out these words though Maud realized with a spasm of fear that the child...