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Nightshades
(Hardcover)
Harlow Daiger, Marley Del Wood; Edited by Melva Mclean
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Discovery Miles 5 830
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An American master of the fictional nightmare
Robert W. Chambers most famous and most highly regarded work is
undoubtedly, 'The King in Yellow'-a collection of stories held by
the common theme of a drama of the same title which drives those
who read it to insanity. It is widely accepted that this work is
one of the most important in the whole library of American
supernatural writing. Nevertheless, it is but part of Chambers'
output in the field of weird and supernatural writings, so this
special Leonaur collection of Chambers fiction in the genre-which
of course includes the stories that comprise 'The King in
Yellow'-runs to a satisfying four substantial volumes. Leonaur
editions are available in softcover and hardback with dust jacket
for collectors. Leonaur hardbacks feature real cloth bindings, gold
foil embossed lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail
bands.
The first volume includes the novel 'The Slayer of Souls, ' the
novelette 'The Man at the Next Table, ' and fourteen short stories.
"Thrilling . . . one of the best Stephen King novels not written by
the master himself. . . . The setup promises furious action, and
Percy delivers, like [Richard] Matheson, like King. . . An awfully
impressive literary performance."--New York Times Book Review
"Masterful crafting . . . a horror story for our
times."--Minneapolis Star Tribune The Dark Net is real. An
anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far
reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies
and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now, an
ancient darkness is gathering there as well. This force is
threatening to spread virally into the real world unless it can be
stopped by members of a ragtag crew, including a twelve-year-old
who has been fitted with a high-tech visual prosthetic to combat
her blindness; a technophobic journalist; a one-time child
evangelist with an arsenal in his basement; and a hacker who
believes himself a soldier of the Internet. Set in present-day
Portland, The Dark Net is a cracked-mirror version of the digital
nightmare we already live in, a timely and wildly imaginative
techno-thriller about the evil that lurks in real and virtual
spaces, and the power of a united few to fight back. "This is
horror literature's bebop, bold, smart, confident in its capacity
to redefine its genre from the ground up. Read this book, but take
a firm grip on your hat before you start."--Peter Straub
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