The first Act is murder: a killer is preying on young women in Seattle. The victims' bodies lie strewn about the city like litter. Police efforts to stop the killer have been minimal. Among those making a more significant effort to stop the murderer are five homeless people living in an abandoned church. Their play for the capture of the killer comprises the five Acts of this elegant, dramatic novel. The narrator is a former TV actor who could no longer sell meaningless products to a faceless audience. His comrades include a war veteran who shouts "Felony assault!" from street corners, a disillusioned former nun, a soulful poet, and a knight-errant adrift in the twentieth century.

Street: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Cady, Jack

United States

St Martins Pr

Joel-Peter, an itinerant preacher, and a dark gray cat arrive in Point Vestal, a cursed town on the edge of the Pacific, where ghosts walk among the living and time behaves strangely. By the author of Street.

The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel

The Off Season

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Cady's horror is that of the working man who has put his soul and sweat and hands to build a civilization, only to see the edifice of his creation taken apart by time, by selfishness, and by the warped, dark corners of the men who would bend the work of others to their own ends. The Hauntings of Hood Canal presents a small town in Washington state, a town that has settled into its own equilibrium, only to have that equilibrium upset by the arrival of a man who's a little too fond of small children. A responsible blacksmith rids the town of this infection, but the doing of it creates a moral imbalance, and restoring the balance means facing an evil that has cracked the foundation of civilization itself. A dark and moody novel of small-town life in Washington disturbed by a mysterious entity that drags cars into Hood canal. A cast of drifters, hustlers, and others on the fringe find their lives drawn into a vortex of anxiety by an investigation into the deaths caused by an ancient creature that takes up residence in the canal they live by.

The Hauntings of Hood Canal

St.Martin's Press

Horror is added to the misery of entrapment in the coldest winter in memory, when dead sailors appear to the crew of an ice-bound Coast Guard cutter.

The Jonah Watch

AVON.

Burning and Other Stories (Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction Ser)

History & Criticism

Univ of Iowa Pr

John Tracker returns with his wife, Amy, to the mysterious house of his childhood, subjecting himself to memories of three relatives assumed to be dead and being inexorably drawn to the evil secrets of the house's well

The Well

Arbor House Pub. Co

The Jonah Watch: A true-life ghost story in the form of a novel

Arbor House

McDowell returns to his ancestral home in the South and finds it haunted by the ghost of a uniform-clad Confederate ancestor, who has been waiting to settle accounts from the past

McDowell's Ghost

Winner - 1993 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.

The Sons of Noah & Other Stories

Broken Moon Pr

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