![]() This collection contains the best of his prose works, including of course the well-known masterpieces 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (the ultimate haunted house story), 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (the very first detective story in fiction). ![]() Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark stimulus of Poe's gothic tales with gleeful appreciation of their macabre and otherworldly qualities, claiming afterwards that he had quite succeeded in frightening himself! For lovers of the thrilling and chilling, young and old, Poe's sensational stories cannot fail to hit the spot. ![]() ![]() Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() His job already jeopardized by his role in a race-related murder case in another part of the state, Darren eases his way into Lark, where even his presence is enough to raise hackles among both the town’s white and black residents some of the latter, especially, seem reluctant and evasive in their conversations with him. Both battered bodies were found in a nearby bayou. ![]() One of the victims is a black lawyer from Chicago, the kind of crusader-advocate Darren could have been if he’d stayed on his original path the other is a young white woman, a local resident. “It was never intended for you.” Darren often wonders if she’s right but nonetheless finds his badge useful “for working homicides with a racial element-murders with a particularly ugly taint.” The East Texas town of Lark is small enough to drive through “in the time it to sneeze,” but it’s big enough to have had not one, but two such murders. “What is it about that damn badge?” his estranged wife, Lisa, asks. Instead, he followed his uncle’s lead to become a Texas Ranger. With a degree from Princeton and two years of law school under his belt, Darren Mathews could have easily taken his place among the elite of African-American attorneys. What appears at first to be a double hate crime in a tiny Texas town turns out to be much more complicated-and more painful-than it seems. ![]() ![]() I did read Hearts in Atlantis last year, but that is a cohesive collection of interconnected stories with recurring characters and themes. ![]() Skeleton Crew is my first true foray into Stephen King’s works of short fiction. Whether it’s a mysterious impenetrable mist camouflaging bizarre, otherworldly terrors that could herald the destruction of humanity or an eerie-looking child s toy that harbors an unimaginable evil or four college students on a deserted lake encountering something that crosses the boundary of sanity or a man suddenly given the omnipotent ability to quite literally edit his own reality the extraordinary narratives found in Skeleton Crew are the enduring and irresistible proof that Stephen King is a true master of the short fiction form. ![]() From one of the greatest storytellers in modern times comes this classic collection of twenty-two works of fright and wonder unforgettable tales that will take you to where your darkest fears await. ![]() |