A group of travelers are menaced by an unseen force in this chilling, supernatural horror tale. A truck driver, a schoolboy, a retired bank manager, and an eccentric country woman are among Read more…
Dead Until Dark is the first book in Charlaine Harris's series The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels. In this first installment, the author introduces Sookie Stackhouse, a 25-yeRead more…
What would it require for a person to live all the commandments of the Bible for an entire year? That is the question that animates this hilarious, quixotic, thought-provoking memoir from Jacobs (The KRead more…
It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates Motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night.
This is the story of a man who finds himself arriving at exactly the same service station over and over again. He leaves, he drives away, but every time he tries to exit the motorway he discovers that he’s back in the same HappRead more…
Back then he was looking at a fat IPO and a boat. Back then he was rich. Back then he had a condo overlooking the ocean, a wife, and had just bought the BMW Z4 convertible. Cobalt blue, like the ocean on a clean, clear day in early Read more…
The highly-acclaimed sequel to H.G. Wells's The Time Machine. Written to celebrate the centenary of the publication of H G Wells's classic story The Time Machine, Stephen Baxter's stunning sequel is an outstanding work
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FUTURE IMPERFECT....1988 BBC World Service, 6 x 15min. Read by Ed Bishop & Robert Powell 1/6: Harrison Bergeron (8/5/88) by Kurt Vonnegut 2/6: Nine Billion Names of God (15/5/88) by Arthur C Clarke 3/6: The Other End of the Line (22/5/88) by Walter Trevi
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After the release of Hill's acclaimed novel Heart-Shaped Box, this collection of his short fiction, originally published in Britain two years ago made its way to the United States. Hill, the son of horror master Step
Joan Delano Aiken (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English novelist. She was born in Rye, East Sussex, into a family of writers, including her father, American poet Conrad Aiken (who won a Pulitzer Prize for his
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