James Hampton: 26 books

Glenn Lockwood has made a new friend, a man by the name of Vernon Hudspeth. Today Vernon is seventy. Tomorrow he'll be sixty, and fifty the day after. Who knows how this is happening? Who knows why? Maybe these are just magic days, when impossible wishes are granted, dying loves are restored, and hints are everywhere that the cosmos is a far grander thing than anyone can imagine.

On a deserted beach late at night, a man encounters a miracle...for the second time.

Jason and Maggie Chandler have traveled to the end of the universe: a cold, dark, silent place where, in the halls of the grand palace that represents life’s last outpost, they will bear witness to a universe in its death throes—and glimpse the beginning, perhaps, of what comes next.

A woman who lies dying in a hospital room on Christmas Eve gets an unusual visitor.

He arrived on a bicycle, bringing with him a great mystery...and a message of hope.

Most often you see him in the morning, just after dawn, walking and walking but never arriving anywhere, his earthly existence bound to the dangerous sandbar that lies just offshore. Drew Addison, a local resident, has resolved to help this mysterious traveler complete his journey. But to do so he must first reveal a terrible truth.

Lester Baines, a man whose business is security, is on his way home after the night shift. He has no reason to expect anything other than an easy ride. But a malfunctioning computer aboard his vehicle is about to make things complicated...

Paula Quindlen has recently learned that a guy she was interested in isn't on the market. She assures herself that somebody else will come along eventually, and, indeed, while she's out for a jog early one morning, somebody does. Paula will have to use caution with him, though. He's kind of a wolf.

Slocomb's Pond has a bad reputation. Some people have returned from it with tales of hideous creatures living beneath its placid waters. Others have not returned at all. This is the story of four boys who, one winter night, decide to tempt Fate at Slocomb's Pond, and who are caught most unaware when Fate takes them up on their wager.

Skip Dozier likes to say he's in the business of murder: he creates graphic novels that document the lives of fiendish mass killers from the darkest corners of history. One of Skip's newest fans, who happens to be a killer himself, is so impressed that he wants Skip to serve as his biographer. And he'll be overseeing the work personally, just to make sure it turns out right.

Brian Strauss is a young father who secretly doubts his ability to protect his wife and son. Joanna Welling is a woman who does not recognize love if it lacks qualities of pain or domination. Carl Lowden is a man who sees himself slowly drifting out of the lives of the people he treasures most. All...

It's the summer of 1985, and ten-year-old Jeremy Roberts has made some new friends recently: Bill and Nora Hathaway, a pleasant middle-aged couple who live in a big house by a lake. But the Hathaways are far more than they seem. Very soon they will be embarking on a voyage into the infinite...and they will ask Jeremy to come with them.

THE GOLDEN MASK: A lonely man whose only friends are books spends an evening with a strange novella he has been warned not to read. THE THRONG: In the Deep South of the early twentieth century, a bitter and impoverished aristocrat plans to sell the last remnant of his family's once-sprawling plantation; little does the buyer know that the property is full of monsters...

Nathan Merritt is trapped in a thicket. It's an in-between place, beautiful and strange, full of winding trails. Which of these paths he takes will be the most important decision of his life...for some of them lead home, others to nowhere, and others still to eternity.