Evil in a winter landscape The narrator of this disturbing novel has come to his estranged brother's country house with his daughter hoping for reconciliation. But John Singleton - actor, artist, philanderer - has discovered something terrible in the deep wood that surrounds him. Where wild dogs prowl but no children roam, a truth waits, ancient and hungry.

Wild Wood

Literature & Fiction

Gersh, Max

Contemporary

Postern Press

The1908 classic tale of cosmic terror. A reclusive man and his sister, isolated in an ancient country house in Ireland, confront malignant creatures from deep in the Earth. . . . "I leant forward, and peered over, and down into the Pit, just beneath where I stood; and saw no further than a hideous, white swine-face, that had risen to within a couple of yards of my feet. Below it, I could make out several others. As the Thing saw me, it gave a sudden, uncouth squeal, which was answered from all parts of the Pit. A gust of horror and fear took me, and I discharged my gun right into its face. My sister was coming towards me. "Run!" I shouted. "Run, for your life!" . . . "The book is more than a creepy story," says Max Gersh in his introduction. "Hodgson understood that true horror is a glimpse of the cosmic."

The House on the Borderland

HODGSON, WILLIAM HOPE

Genre Fiction

J. Sheridan Le Fanu's classic tale of vampirism and lesbianism, first published in 1871, is presented in a new Postern Press edition that includes Le Fanu's story "Green Tea." Says Max Gersh in his Introduction: "Put this elegant tale against Bram Stoker's better known, and far wordier, vampire fantasy, and by several measures Stoker runs second. In its overt sexuality, Carmilla is more modern than its successor, which buried unchaste thoughts under carpets of Victorian high-mindedness. Lovely Carmilla is neither chaste nor well-behaved."

Carmilla

Le Fanu, J. Sheridan

A Christmas Carol

DICKENS., CHARLES

Literary

The stranger arrived on a wintry day, wrapped from head to foot.  H. G. Wells's classic tale of a man seeking power who finds instead a curse.  In readable 12-point type.

The Invisible Man

Wells., H.G

Classics

With these two short novels, Alex B. Stone demonstrates again the wry humor and compassion that have won admirers for earlier works such as If I Could Sleep (Red Heifer Press). Though the background is Jewish, the sensibility is universal. In SUMMER OF OPPORTUNITY, Harry Apple, a failed multimedia artist from New York, might feel out of place in Midwestern academia except for two facts: his college's sleek president, Pamela Millson, is on the make for him, and the foundation he's been asked to head has two million dollars plus nice artwork nobody is watching closely. Harry Apple's mother didn't raise a stupid son. In INDIAN SUMMER, Phil Weiss is lured home to the Midwest by aging parents who don't seem to notice they're driving him up the wall. By the author of Tales frm the Prayer House.

Summer: 2 novellas

Stone, Alex B.

The memoirs, candid to a point, of Benny Roone, an investigator with a good Jewish kup. We follow his professional career from pulling a Russian nuclear expert out of Europe to gathering evidence in a war crimes case, then observe his uneasy retirement. Are murdered poultry and stolen art enough to keep Benny Roone busy? Or will he finally write his memoirs? If he does, will he admit to helping an Israeli spy walk off with American weapons technology?

Benny Roone Detects

World Literature

A small Midwestern Jewish congregation struggles to find ten members for morning prayers in these wise and funny vignettes by the author of If I Could Sleep and Summer. We meet a cantor who aims for bigger things, a vanishing rabbi, and families that, beset by illness, conflict and loss, hold to each other and their traditions.

Tales from the Prayer House

On idyllic Sanibel Island, Florida, a retired military investigator sets himself up as a consultant in other people's troubles--and oh, does he find troubles! A dead Chinese man in a freezer. A mystery writer looking for ways to murder a burdensome parent. A middle-aged art curator with designs on an old man's collection--if not on his life. Business as usual for sleuth Benny Roone means more questions than answers.

Shades of Benny Roone

When Bill Schnell's uncle dies in London, the young executor takes on more of an assignment than he expected. Besides Uncle George's collection of American modern art, Bill finds a secret trove of German Expressionist work of--as they say in the art game--dubious provenance. Unfortunately, the same might be said of George's business partners, whose blunt demands for money lead Bill to wonder if his uncle's death was really an accident.

Country Boy

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