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The year is 1928, and the Philadelphia Athletics are on the verge
of supplanting the New York Yankees as the greatest baseball team
the sport has ever known. How much easier their job would be if
something catastrophic should befall the Yank's star player, Babe
Ruth. Which it will, if Ruth's former minor league roommate and
nemesis, embittered, shell-shocked World War I veteran Nick
Hudson-who sometimes hears voices and sees things that don't
exist-can execute his warped and devious plan.
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The Christmas Star (Paperback)
Christopher Fahy; Illustrated by Cortney Skinner
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Real estate mogul Russell Dodge has coveted Maine's pristine
Sheffield Peak for years, so when its owner finally decides to
sell, Dodge hurries to Maine to close the deal right before
Christmas. On his drive to the plane that will take him back to
Manhattan, he daydreams about his plans to turn the Peak into an
opulent ski resort with a three hundred room hotel, two
restaurants, a health club, condos and much more. Euphoric, he
takes narrow Sheffield road to the airport instead of the highway
in order to catch one more look at his prize - a fateful decision
that sparks a traumatic turn of events that sends him into a very
different world from the one he has always known, a world where
people don't have much - just everything that matters - and makes
him question the way he has always lived.
An elderly junk dealer finds redemption in a defunct burlesque
theater. A middle-aged Jewish man discovers the aphrodisiacal
powers of a Ku Klux Klan uniform. An annual street carnival
provides the venue for legalized murder. A hopeless young factory
worker uses her savings to pay for a fantasy tryst with her idol, a
dead rock star, and is shattered by the experience. Welcome to the
world of Christopher Fahy, a world of fantastical transformation,
where the ordinary takes bizarre and macabre twists. These are
among the twenty-two stories (which includes one extra story in
this hard cover version) fantasy stories in the latest Overlook
Connection Press release, Christopher Fahy's Matinee at the Flame.
Stephen King says Christopher Fahy .." is a wonderful writer" and
Matinee at the Flame will show you why. Twenty-One stories have
been collected here, over half of them appearing for the first
time. The previously published stories are being collected here for
the first time anywhere. Artist Glenn Chadbourn has created
full-page artwork for each story in this collection, as well as the
wonderful cover. Matinee at the Flame will take you on many
different genre trails. From the Twilight Zone tempered title
story, to stories of horror, science fiction, and the fantastic
such as: The Blumberg Variations, Night Watch, The Man in Black, A
Special Breed, Want, and Carnival to name a few.
"I thought that Chris Fahy's novel Fever 42 was both wildly funny
and surprisingly sad. The combination made me think of the early
J.D. Salinger period. ... I think it will attract a lot of
attention. Chris is a wonderful writer." - Stephen King. Ted
Wharton, 42, a teacher at Whitman High in Somerside, New Jersey,
lives a routine suburban life with his wife and kids. Disenchanted
after fifteen years of teaching, going thru the motions at work
-and home-he feels the clock is ticking. Then it happens: on the
same day that one of Ted's colleagues drops dead of a heart attack,
Joy, 17, a bright and stunningly beautiful senior in one of his
classes, makes a play for him. And he puts up no resistance. Fully
alive for the first time in years, he revels in his wild trysts
with Joy -many at Whitman High. Living on the edge, obsessed with
Joy, but realizing the ultimate disaster this will become, tries to
end his relationship with her. Only to see his world spiral out of
control.
Ted, an English teacher, has found that life has become dull until
Joy comes along. Joy takes him on a soul-shattering trip that makes
his spirit soar. Alive for the first time in years, he revels in
his wild trysts with Joy--a student at his high school. "Wildly
funny and surprisingly sad. . . made me think of the early J.D.
Salinger period. Christopher is a wonderful writer."--Stephen King.
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