McCammon's Shoppe of Olde Curiosities

A collection of genre-bending horror and dark fantasy stories from the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of the Matthew Corbett novels.This edition includes an introduction by international bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale.Featuring two Bram Stoker Award-winning tales, McCammon's Shoppe of Olde Curiosities is a career-spanning collection gathering nineteen short stories showcasing the author's imaginative range of frightening terror, fantastical worldbuilding, and characters confronting the unknown around them and within themselves.Pursuing a life of celebrity fame, Erik Van Helsing's desire to cash in on his famous family's name as vampire hunters unveils a legacy he cannot escape in "Blood is Thicker Than Hollywood"--a spinoff tale from the novel They Thirst.A woman surviving in a post-apocalyptic landscape fights off loneliness when she reads aloud to the "Children of the Bedtime Machine"--a tribute to the wondrous storytelling style of Ray Bradbury.As "Death Comes for the Rich Man" in 1703 Colonial America, Matthew Corbett is hired to delay the Grim Reaper to give a regretful old sinner time to make amends with his estranged daughter.Experimenting as a mixologist, McCammon presents five drink recipes in A Little Amber Book of Wicked Shots, accompanying stories about a serial killer in a haunted hotel, an athlete's destiny in the face of cosmic horror, a vindictive ad man learning the price of revenge, and an ex-slave on a suicidal and soul-sacrificing mission to serve justice.Chilling and evocative, weird and humorous, these stories--and a dozen more--reveal why "no one can paint word pictures as vividly as Robert McCammon" (Sandra Brown).

Pagina's: 352, Paperback, JABberwocky Literary Agency Inc