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Pecan City, Texas, is a quiet, uneventful town. Hartley Gorman is a sedate, fundamentalist college. English professor Carl Burns is about to begin yet another year in such a place, with only the eccentricities of his fellow teachers to entertain him. Even Burns, perpetual worrier that he is, envisions the worst of his problems to be the pigeons that have roosted in the attic above his office.

Professor Carl Burns knew the new dean wasn't going to work out when she bought the two goats. And that was the least of the problems. Hartley Gorman College was being attacked - with a vengeance - by the forces of political correctness, and the new dean was an unreconstructed hippie. Tom Henderson's fatal fall through a window definitely wasn't part of the planned curriculum.

It's been a while since Sheriff Dan Rhodes's football days, but things haven't really changed, at least not with state playoffs coming up and excitement for the local high school team heating up to a fever pitch. But then coach Brady Meredith is found shot to death in his car, and his murder leads to...

A group of women, the jin-shei sisterhood, form a uniquely powerful circle that transcends class and social custom. They are bound together by a declaration of loyalty that transcends all other vows, even those with the gods, by their own secret language, passed from mother to daughter, by the knowledge...

Featuring an Introduction by Karl Edward Wagner, Red Dreams is "A stunning collection of thirteen macabre stories by America’s premier writer of horror” (Fantasy Newsletter). Included in this collection: TALKING IN THE DARK; WET SEASON; I CAN HEAR THE DARK; THE GRAVEYARD BLUES; ON THE PIKE; KEEPER...

The preeminent master of the modern American horror story takes a bold and unsettling turn in this 1995 study of Southern California suburbia, where things are not always as they seem and earthquake forces lie just below the surface of the San Fernando Valley. This new edition presents the author's preferred text.

Featuring an Introduction by Ramsey Campbell.In this modern classic, Doug Carson is living the American dream, with a beautiful wife and three perfect daughters — until a sudden, shocking death plunges them into the nightmare underworld of Los Angeles...

Jenny and Lee Marlow are Hollywood writers. After years of research, they have finally solved the infamous Lizzie Borden case. But now Jenny's sanity — and her survival — are at stake, as the killings begin again. Is someone copying the bloody crimes of a century ago...or is the axe-murderess alive...

Shadowman, a sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning story "The Dark Country," follows Jack Martin into an even deeper darkness in Shadow Bay, where the surf echoes against the shore, wild dogs howl and children tell ghost stories by firelight. Lissa Shelby works with disturbed children, and they are...

A long time ago, in this very galaxy, Joe R. Lansdale created a character named The God of the Razor. The God lives in another dimension, most of the time. Certain symbols, certain acts of bloodletting and violence, certain blades - one razor in particular - can open those doors. Includes 3 short stories & the screenplay The Nightrunners written with Neal Barrett Jr.

OBSESSIONS: Desires and emotions that can't be reasoned with. With these fourteen stories and one poem, prepare to enter a world of darkness, a world where desires and needs are twisted into something so monstrous not even death can end them. * In a time of war, a badly wounded soldier tries to heal...

The wilderness. It was a brutal force, a powerful magnet drawing Boone away from the woman he loved and the children he fathered … into the savage unknown. Rebecca Boone watched him go and waited for his return … her heart aching and filled with passion … not knowing that another man...

Against history’s greatest conqueror, one man will stand alone … When Alexander of Macedon crossed the Hellespont in the spring of 334 BC, he came ravenous for Glory, desperate for the immortality that was his birthright. At the Granicus River, he smashed an army devised by the formidable...

THE UNICORN GAMBIT: FINAL BOOK in THE GAMING MAGI TRILOGY by New York Time Bestselling Writer, David Bischoff -- Ian Farthing discovers who he really is. But will the Multiverse now allow him to live?