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A long December / Richard Chizmar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Burton, MI : Subterranean Press, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 519 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781596067936
  • 1596067934
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Blood brothers -- The man with X-ray eyes -- The box -- Heroes -- Ditch treasures -- The silence of sorrow -- After the bombs -- Last words -- Night call -- The lake is life -- The good old days -- Grand finale -- The artist -- Family ties -- Mister Parker -- Monsters -- Like father, like son -- The tower -- Brothers -- Cemetery dance -- Blue -- A crime of passion -- Homesick -- Devil’s night -- Bride of Frankenstein: a love story -- The season of giving -- A season of change -- Midnight promises -- The night shift -- Only the strong survive -- The interview -- The poetry of life -- A long December -- Story notes.
Summary: Includes thirty-five stories, including a previously-unpublished novella. This massive new collection features more than 150,000 words of Richard Chizmar's very best short fiction and includes 8,000 words of autobiographical Story Notes.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Chizmar, Richard Available 33111008511715
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Powerful]]I love it]] Richard Chizmar writes clean, no-nonsense prose]]sets his tales in no-nonsense, middle class neighborhoods I can relate to]]and writes terrific stories served with a very large slice of Disquiet Pie."Stephen King"Chizmar's stories are hard-hitting, spooky, suspenseful, poignant, harrowing, heartbreaking and most of all very well-written. Excellent work!"Robert McCammonIn 1996, Richard Chizmar's debut short story collection, Midnight Promises, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Publishers Weekly called it "a sterling collection" while singling out "The Silence of Sorrow" as "an understated masterpiece."Two years later, Subterranean Press published a mini-collection from Chizmar entitled Monsters and Other Stories. In his introduction, acclaimed genre critic Edward Bryant said, "When all is said and done, this book should leave you in utter silence, giving you time and opportunity to contemplate what you just read. Tough storytelling from a tough writer; but a writer who is not calloused. Chizmar possesses a finely honed gift of empathy. With utter grace and loving kindness he'll put you right inside the life (and soul) of the monster."Now, nearly two decades later, Chizmar assembles thirty-five stories, including a previously-unpublished novella, and presents us with A Long December. This massive new collection features more than 150,000 words of Chizmar's very best short fiction and includes 8,000 words of autobiographical Story Notes.Eerie, suspenseful, poignant, the stories in A Long December range from horror to suspense, crime to dark fantasy, mainstream to mystery.As New York Times bestselling author Scott Smith (A Simple Plan, The Ruins) notes: "It's an idyllic little world Richard Chizmar has created. Boys fish in the shallows of a winding creek. A father tosses a baseball with his young son in the fading light of a summer day. There's the smell of fresh-cut grass. And then, well]]just beneath the surface? There

Blood brothers -- The man with X-ray eyes -- The box -- Heroes -- Ditch treasures -- The silence of sorrow -- After the bombs -- Last words -- Night call -- The lake is life -- The good old days -- Grand finale -- The artist -- Family ties -- Mister Parker -- Monsters -- Like father, like son -- The tower -- Brothers -- Cemetery dance -- Blue -- A crime of passion -- Homesick -- Devil’s night -- Bride of Frankenstein: a love story -- The season of giving -- A season of change -- Midnight promises -- The night shift -- Only the strong survive -- The interview -- The poetry of life -- A long December -- Story notes.

Includes thirty-five stories, including a previously-unpublished novella. This massive new collection features more than 150,000 words of Richard Chizmar's very best short fiction and includes 8,000 words of autobiographical Story Notes.

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