Unlike much of the current form, full of blood, monsters and melodrama, Aickman's stories achieve a quieter, more subtle and, in several ways, more lasting sense of disquiet. His lucid, finely tuned prose moves imperceptibly from the small crises and celebrations of ordinary life into another sphere. In these 11 stories, the occasion may be a walking tour of Northern England, a birthday present of a Victorian dollhouse or a stay at a Swedish sanatorium for insomniacs, but it simultaneously traps the characters with dread and opens them up to a new awareness of a greater, deeper and more dangerous world. A remarkable collection by an author who deserves to be better known.Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

    

    Whitney's best."THE CHATTANOOGA TIMESSeven years after her child had been taken from her, Jennifer Blake received an invitation from wealthy Corinthea Arles, who clamed to have found her daughter. From the moment Jennifer arrived at Mrs. Arles's luxurious estate on Vancouver Island, she was caught up in events beyond her control and surrounded by people who were not what they seemed. Amid a maze of family intrigues, buried secets, and unexpected romance, Jennifer Blake was determined to uncover the truth about her lost daughter--despite the very real danger that lay in wait....

    Through them, she finds herself the unlikely heir to an extraordinary bejeweled fan made of peacock feathers. But though priceless and dazzling to behold, the fan bears a curse that promises ill fortune—and even death—to whoever possesses it....

    A selection of tales and poems, visually interpreted with photographs by Simon Marsden, capturing the world as Poe envisaged it.

    In this groundbreaking study, Tony Magistrale shows how King's fiction transcends the escapism typical of its genre to tap into our deepest cultural fears: "that the government we have installed through the democratic process is not only corrupt but actively pursuing our destruction, that our technologies have progressed to the point at which the individual has now become expendable, and that our fundamental social institutions-school, marriage, workplace, and the church-have, beneath their veneers of respectability, evolved into perverse manifestations of narcissism, greed, and violence."Tracing King's moralist vision to the likes of Twain, Hawthorne, and Melville, Landscape of Fear establishes the place of this popular writer within the grand tradition of American literature. Like his literary forbears, King gives us characters that have the capacity to make ethical choices in an imperfect, often evil world. Yet he inscribes that conflict within unmistakably modern settings. From the industrial nightmare of "Graveyard Shift" to the breakdown of the domestic sphere in The Shining, from the techno-horrors of The Stand to the religious fanaticism and adolescent cruelty depicted in Carrie, Magistrale charts the contours of King's fictional landscape in its first decade.

    It was there that she saw the clowns, with their large red noses, floppy shoes--and deadly grins. A hellish nightmare was about to begin. For these clowns craved terrified screams--not gleeful laughter--and were hungry for death!

    The sole inheritor of her late husband's fortune, Eden Lane Hatfield is convinced that someone wants her out of Hatfield Castle, preferably dead, and nothing can assuage her terror--not even the comforting presence of Garth Striker..

    Unspeakable deeds long done had bred a vicious enmity between her husband and his brothers, a legacy of malice and suspicion destined to haunt her unborn child.In a desperate attempt to find someone to trust, Brindelle struggled to unravel the dark mysteries of her new family. And all too soon she began to see that a brooding evil stalked the dimly lit passageways of Servieres...an evil that lived for nothing more than her death!

    She quickly gave the handsome Irish lord her heart, never doubting that the disconcerting gleam in her betrothed's eye stemmed from the passions of true love. But everything changed once Michael brought her home to Dunwick. Her charming husband became a brooding stranger, and she was left alone to contend with the ghostly legacy of his beautiful first wife...and the growing suspicion that Elizabeth's inheritance was all Michael ever really wanted. Frightened by the mysterious accidents that plagued her days, haunted by the deadly portent of the banshee's cry, Elizabeth began to wonder if it was her destiny to die at the hands of her beloved.

    When Catalina returns to her childhood home at El Rancho del Nublado in Mexico, she learns that someone is willing to commit murder to keep the mystery of her father's death a secret.

    Captivated by Angelica's unspoiled youth and beauty, he led her to his family estate - where a moonlit secret rode the moors on horseback...It was the Devil-Child, mocked and feared by superstitious villagers...Shadowed by mystery, haunted by the past, Angelica and Benedict forged a passionate love amid the raging storms of suspicion: Was Benedict father to the "Devil-Child"? And was Angelica's desire strong enough to survive the startling truth?

    In this authoritative, ground-breaking biography, she is finally restored to her rightful stature as one of the major figures in English literary history.Here for the first time is a full account of Mary Shelley's career, significant areas of which have never before been examined: her precocious childhood, her adolescent liaison with the radical poet Shelley, her creation of Frankenstein at the age of nineteen, her tempestuous but brilliant married years with Shelley, and, of particular note, the dramatic second half of her life, after Shelley's death. Emily Sunstein has also discovered previously unknown works written by Mary Shelley and traces the development of her unjustly clouded posthumous reputation.

    When the child becomes a young woman, she inherits her dead cousin's house, as well as her reputation among the local community as a witch. However, as she finds out, this is no normal community, and worries quickly present themselves.Alternate cover edition for this ISBN 9780773672611 is here