Philip Quinn: 9 books

Starting with the little known historical fact that James Earl Ray hid in Toronto following the assassination of Martin Luther King, the author builds an elaborate scenario around Toronto's history for creating and hiding assassins and murderers.   The poet Emily Carr Black believes...

The Skeleton Dance takes place on the mean, formerly clean streets of Toronto before the century ticked over into the new millennium. This graphic novel artfully depicts the human casualties and debris piled up around the downtown bank towers. Wiped out in the rush of the thousand-eyed crowd...

  Stories of broken lives flow and link to build a narrative in which characters wrestle with their unique post-flood circumstances. A woman is left by her husband because she gave birth to a flipper boy. A man believes he was “digitalized” by aliens. Edwin the mortician develops...

The Skeleton Dance takes place on the mean, formerly clean streets of Toronto before the century ticked over into the new millennium. This graphic novel artfully depicts the human casualties and debris piled up around the downtown bank towers. Wiped out in the rush of the thousand-eyed crowd hurrying...

This is the fictional story of Nick Ray who worked with Bill Gates during the early days of Microsoft; who had a role in the movie, Heaven’s Gate; and who joined the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult. He escapes death by pretending to swallow the lethal mixture of apple sauce, vodka and barbiturates....

A woman suffers from gaps in her memory and to fill them she borrows from the story of Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II. She is variously known as Anna O., Fraulein Unbekannt, or Anna S. Her desire to be known as Anastasia parallels the attempt by a woman...

CONTENTS: ABRAHAM MERRITT 1. The People of the Pit AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG 2. Omega ANTHONY MELVILLE RUD 3. Ooze ARTHUR TRAIN 4. The Nth Power CLARK ASHTON SMITH 5. The Black Abbot of Puthuum DAVID H. KELLER 6. The Jelly-Fish DAVID H. KELLER 7. The Rat Racket DAVID H. KELLER 8. The Worm DONALD ALLEN...

The story of the Bible starts with the simple statement, "In the beginning, God created . . ." From that first sentence of Genesis, the story of salvation unfolds in strange and wonderful mingling of the commonplace and the miraculous, the human and the transcendent. But if you were born after the...

In his extraordinarily influential book on ethics, After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre maintained that Kierkegaard's notion of "choosing" to interpret one's choices in ethical terms implies an arbitrary and irrational leap. MacIntyre's critique of Kierkegaard has become the focal point for...