Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories: 1

Literature & Fiction

Gary A. Braunbeck

Genre Fiction

Earthling Publications

Dark forces are at work in the seemingly placid countryside of Victorian England. As his church mysteriously burns and his friends die around him, Father Alec Venn catches a glimpse of a winged figure outside one of the stained glass windows. Venn's quest to reveal the source of the destruction will bring him face to face with ghosts, demons, and human evil. The boundary between life and death as well as the limits of faith are tested in this novella of the supernatural by Jeffrey Thomas. ~ 300 numbered softcover chapbooks, signed by Jeffrey Thomas

Godhead Dying Downwards

Thomas, Jeffrey

The Brotherhood of Mutilation

Brian Evenson

Exorcising Angels

Tim Lebbon

Simon Clark

From Booklist\nReprinted or new, Smith's hauntingly nasty stories are laced with an odd sort of beauty. In one of the new stories, "Being Right," a man dissatisfied with his marriage finds a book, Hopes of a Lesser Demon, Part II, that allows him to summon up an angel to prove, in any given dispute, whether or not he is correct (lacking such proof is the cause of much of his marital frustration). "When God Lived in Kentish Town," another little gem, depicts God's junk shop in the center of Kentish Town. Following in a fine horror tradition is the murky, Lovecraftian "To See the Sea," in which a town is populated by Lovecraft's favorite sort of vile things from under the sea, the kind that crawled through H. P.'s classic "The Shadow over Innsmouth." The volume is framed by horror specialist editor Stephen Jones' introduction and Smith's afterword, "On Not Writing," which reviews the trials, tribulations, and processes of a writer's work. Regina Schroeder 
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved\nFrom Publishers Weekly\nIn this stellar retrospective collection, Smith (Spares, etc.) proves that effective horror fiction depends as much on solid grounding in the ordinary as on the evocation of the extraordinary. Most of the 30 stories (including four original to the volume) feature characters so believably common and unassuming-"emotionally homeless, culturally pointless" is the way one describes himself-that the nightmares that overtake them hit with the unexpected force of a sucker punch. In the title story, a friendly infotech type finds his tediously clinical work on computers slowly drawing him into a voyeuristic hell of Internet pornography. "A Place to Stay" conveys the strange experience of a man's vampirization through the disorienting fragmentation of his daily routines. The protagonist of "Being Right" leads a life so seemingly humdrum that the reader is disarmed to discover it's the manifestation of a repellent psychopathology. Smith's skill at presenting emotionally credible characters gives him easy access to a wide range of themes, from "To See the Sea," a Lovecraftian tale with a flesh-creeping surprise, to "To Receive Is Better," an O. Henryesque shocker. Most of these stories have been available only in the author's native U.K., and this omnibus gathering will introduce American readers to one of the best writers of short horror fiction to emerge in the 1990s. 
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More Tomorrow & Other Stories

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH

SYNOPSIS: In the deserts of the Middle East, the Cradle of Life, where civilization began, there has always been conflict. And there has always been magic and mystery, danger and demons. The djinns exist. Whether in modern Babylon, or a Babylon forgotten by time, passions run strong. Babylon rises from the sand, unexpected, to both entice and devour. And the sands fall from Babylon... Stare with Gabriel as Babylon rises from the pages of myth and history. March through Iraq with Don Bloom and the 3rd Infantry -- and into the remains of Eden. In these two original stories Brian Keene and John Urbancik explore THE RISE AND FALL OF BABYLON.

Two novellettes from these two new masters of dark fiction, presented in the old Ace Double-type format... the book has two covers, finish one tale, flip the chapbook over and read the other! Deena Warner has ingeniously created wraparound cover art that ties both stories together.

The Rise and Fall of Babylon

Urbancik, John

Keene, Brian

From the author of the acclaimed novel THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN and the award-winning collection THE TWO SAMS comes American Morons, a new collection of dazzling and haunting tales... 
Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian Superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier. Two recently retired teachers learn just how much Los Angeles has taken from them. 
In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows, ice cream-truck drivers and judges, travelers and invalids all discover — and sometimes even survive — the everyday losses from which the most vengeful ghosts so often spring.

American Morons

Glen Hirshberg

Moving to Brighton with his sick mother and her new husband, eleven-year-old Mark finds himself immersed in a strange new world when he sneaks into the old servants' quarters and begins seeing the long-dead servants doing their jobs.

The Servants

Smith,Michael Marshall

"[A] dazzling metaphysical epic-adventure...an astonishing feat of imagination...Barker's best yet." --Kirkus Reviews "Spellbinding." --Atlanta Journal

The Hellbound Heart

Barker/Clive

From the man who has brought you twenty books of dark fiction and fantasy, unforgettable horror movies such HELLRAISER and CANDYMAN, and countless paintings and illustrations, this is the first-ever collection of Clive Barker s nonfiction. Representing nearly 30 years of writing, THE PAINTER, THE CREATURE, AND THE FATHER OF LIES covers the inspirations for his works, insights into the creative process, and musings on art and the horror genre. Not currently scheduled to be published anywhere else, don t miss this landmark collection from a modern master of horror and dark fantasy.

The Painter, the Creature, and the Father of Lies: 30 Years of Non-fiction Writings

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