You know that scene in In the Mouth of Madness when John Trent brings home a stack of Sutter Cane novels and binges on them before passing out on his couch? Cane's books immediately take hold of Trent's imagination, sending him spiraling into a series of progressively disturbing nightmares, each ...
- Edward Morris Where Have You Been All My Life? Edward Morris The sailor awoke before dawn. Something was wrong. Like he’d wound up on the wrong side of the city, on a map no cabbie could read. His work had been interrupted. Here lay the Winter of Nepenthe. Across the...
A man alone. In a castle… or perhaps a manor house. A solitary gent with a few years on him; a man who's carved his place in the world. Of course, we're talking Scotland. Yes. The man lives in a stone manor on the moors. There he sits, staring at a crackling fire in a huge fireplace. His hunti...
Nanashi drove because Koma was far too shaken by contemplating his possible fate once they returned to the city. Haru tended Amida in the back seat. Amida’s suit was tattered. He’d broken his arm in the fall. His nose was crushed into a jellified lump. He’d bled so severely blood coagulated in a ...
The Olympia Police Department, the fire department, the Washington Highway Patrol, all the volunteers. The media. You've worked tirelessly to bring Miranda back to us safe and sound. Thank you.RJ: Is there anything you would care to add, Mr. Carson?JC: Yes. Miranda, honey. I love you. Please come...
For several weeks the boy’s dreams had featured the end of the world in seething acid smoke and rivers of blood. This was worse. Since their exalted station and devotion to the shadowy arts of the Mountain Leopard Temple precluded a typical formal education, the boys received the majority of thei...
There were financial issues; Virgil’s salary as department head at his software development company wasn’t scheduled to increase for another eighteen months and they’d recently enrolled their son Keith in an exclusive grammar school. Thirty grand a year was a serious hit on their rainy-day fund. ...
He invited Argyle Arden and Turk Standish for a barbeque over the weekend, and inveigled Harris Camby, the former Pierce County Sheriff, to attend as well—promising ale and horseshoes. Harris was a formidable presence in the pits; even when the sheriff was dead-drunk none of his friends or collea...