The Mall, VE night 1945: the sky is glittering with fireworks and searchlights as jubilant Londoners celebrate the end the Second World War. Yet for some the waiting is not over. Julia Gillingham's husband, Anthony, has been missing since 1943. A doctor with the army in North Africa, he was captured, taken to prison camp, escaped – and disappeared. Julia has steadfastly refused to believe him dead, and her strength is rewarded when she finally learns that he has survived and is working with refugees in Italy. She leaves her promising career at the London Bar to help prepare the prosecution case in the war-crimes trial against Marshal Kesselring in Venice, so that she can join Anthony there and – she believes – rediscover happiness with him. The war has not damaged Venice itself – unlike the rest of the shattered Continent – but as she learns her way about its ravishing, sinister streets, Julia finds that all her old...

After being falsely accused of murdering his ex-wife, Trace O'Reilly is sentenced to death by lethal injection. Five years later, moments before he is to receive the final dose of drugs that will end his life, he receives a pardon. Given a new lease on life, Trace sets out to find the real murderer. In the process, however, he not only is reacquainted with his daughter but must save her from the one person who knows the truth.

Not since James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room has a novel so deftly explored the complexities of violence and homosexuality. This compelling work tells the chilling story of a murder victim and the three people inextricably caught up in his sexual assault and stabbing. Jesse Durand is a gay black man with two passions in his life: dance and his white boyfriend, Metro. But soon after their move to Greenwich Village, Metro begins to seek rougher sexual thrills, experimenting with drugs and becoming increasingly obsessed with Jesse’s blackness. It is Metro’s murder that pushes Jesse into an emotional darkness from which he may not escape. In a work of great artistry, race and sex become Melvin Dixon’s arenas, as he exposes the truth of our needs and our convictions about love.

“Beautifully crafted stories. . . . Wickedness, evil, malice is called by name; and for Hansen’s people the snake in the garden never fails to appear.” —The New York Times

The Borg—half organic being and half machine, they are the most feared race in the known galaxy. In their relentless quest for technological perfection, they have destroyed entire star systems, enslaved countless peoples, and, in a single brutal attack, decimated Starfleet’s mightiest vessels. Only a final desperate gambit by Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew stopped the Borg from conquering the entire Federation. And now they have returned... Vendetta In the bestselling tradition of Metamorphosis and The Lost Years, here is the newest Star Trek Giant Novel, a story of vengeance and obsession. Answering a distress call from a planet under attack by the Borg, the Enterprise meets Delcara, the lone survivor of an alien race the Borg obliterated. Blinded by hatred, Delcara seeks the ultimate revenge—the complete destruction of her race’s executioners. But the Enterprise crew learns that Delcara’s vengeance carries a terrible price, for once unleashed, the destructive force she commands will annihilate not only the Borg, but countess innocents as well...

Three exciting episodes from television's most popular science fiction series! Complete in this volume Albatross The mission to deliver supplies to Draymia seemed so routine . . . until the natives arrested Dr. McCoy for murder! The Practical Joker Suddenly everything aboard the Enterprise ran amok. Someone or something was up to no good . . . and it was no longer funny! How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth Gods from outer space? It didn't seem likely. Then Kirk and his crew ran up against something calling itself Kukulkan . . . and it didn't seem friendly!

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YESNOThe Ouija Board has long been used as an intersection between our world and the next, a point of connection between the living and the dead. But some questions should remain unanswered, some secrets should stay hidden...and some games should never be played.Sometimes the dead should be left to rest in peace.What fate awaits the unwary who dare to tempt the darkness? Find out in INTERSECTIONS: Six Tales of Ouija Horror — an eclectic collection featuring never-before published stories from some of the horror genre's favorite and finest writers - Megan Hart, Rob E. Boley, Sèphera Girón, Brad C. Hodson, Kerry Lipp, and Chris Marrs.GOOD BYE

Twenty years ago, the Silverettes never made it to the big Blue Silver concert. Now the band's back together for a reunion tour and Georgie Davis is determined to bring the fan club back together for a concert. But Georgie has another reason for wanting to see the boys play--pure, unadulterated sex.

An acclaimed historical thriller by the author of HOUSE OF CARDS – a highly original, fast-moving tale that gives an unexpected twist to the last days of the Second World War. Now reissued in a new cover style. Spring 1945. The final weeks of the war. One man holds the secret that will decide the fate of post-war Europe: Peter Hencke, an unlikely hero, a German prisoner-of-war on the run. Refusing to wait for peace and the freedom it will finally bring, Hencke is fired by a personal mission that drives him to risk everything in his lonely, treacherous journey across wartime Britain, back through the battle-torn remnants of the Third Reich – to the very heart of encircled Berlin. One man faced by the mightiest armies ever assembled, pursued by the most powerful and ruthless men in Europe – and helped and loved by two of the most extraordinary women. The secret of Peter Hencke will be hidden until the very last moments of the war.

Grimscribe: His Lives and Works is the second volume in a series of revised, definitive editions of the horror story collections of Thomas Ligotti. First published in 1991 by Carroll & Graf in the United States and Robinson Publishing in England, Grimscribe garnered significantly more recognition than Ligotti’s first collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, which was issued two years earlier by the same publishers.In the view of many commentators, it was with Grimscribe that Ligotti consolidated his reputation as a horror writer of high stature. As Steven J. Mariconda remarked in a 1992 essay surveying the stories in Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe: “Of the two collections, Grimscribe achieves near-classic status and is recommended to all.” Included in this volume is “The Last Feast of Harlequin,” a novella that, in the observation of H. P. Lovecraft scholar and biographer S. T. Joshi, “may perhaps be the very best homage to Lovecraft ever written.”Like the stories in Songs of a Dead Dreamer, the first title of Ligotti’s to be published in a revised, definitive edition by Subterranean Press, those presented here in Grimscribe: His Lives and Works have been amended to realize the full artistic aims of the originals rather than to compose new versions of these works. This volume may thus be considered, in the manner of its predecessor in this series, as both as a reissue and the culminating specimen of its master effort of twenty years ago.From Publishers WeeklyThe eponymous first-person narrator of this chilling collection assumes many different guises in spinning his eerie tales, but the voice in each of the 12 stories remains the same, a voice "always speaking of terrible secrets." Witness, participant, victim, Grimscribe is, above all, our guide through a landscape at once relentlessly dark and luminously revealing, where a "brood of dark forms" push "through the fog" and "dark bricks that bulge like tumors" appear "on the facades of houses." Prisoners of this bleak but fascinating world include a mild-mannered village schoolteacher sent in "Flowers of the Abyss" to discover the awful truth behind a house in which an entire family perished horribly; in "The Cocoons" we encounter a man trapped in a unique doctor/patient relationship who finds the treatment infinitely more agonizing than the disease; instead of the three Rs, the young boy in "Miss Plarr" receives from his tutor a few lessons in "the sound of something that stings the air." Stylishly wrought in the best tradition of the American gothic and wonderfully reminiscent of Poe and Hawthorne, these scary stories transcend their genre. and command respect. Ligotti wrote Songs of a Dead Dreamer. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus ReviewsHigh-style horror stories in a classic literary mode, in expressiveness not far from the American masters, Poe and H.P. Lovecraft. Ligotti (Songs of a Dead Dreamer, 1990) writes out of what seems an all-embracing depression, making him willing to go into wipeout areas time and again and ask a lot both of himself and his readers. His narrators seldom effect any change; they simply observe a superbly described inner state, then leave, hungover. In "The Last Feast of Harlequin," a professor obsessed with clowns locates a clown festival in the midwestern town of Mirocaw. He goes to observe and join the townsfolk in their festival, perhaps wearing his clown suit. But the festival is not meant for him. In fact, it is two festivals, one within the other, the inner one being a cruel festival of freaks who are detested and beaten by members of the larger clown festival. He joins the freaks and follows them out of town and down a hole in the earth wherein they have borne their frigid Winter Queen. In a cavernous earthen hall, the freaks begin turning into huge worms, and he flees up the black wormhole by which he entered. In "The Glamour," the narrator enters a weird boarded-up movie house to find himself in a sparse audience surrounded by purple lights and seated amid hairy threads that bind all to their seats as they watch a cobweb screen on which is shown grisly purple organs being operated on. He leaves before he can be imprisoned by the floating and crawling hairs. In "The Night School," he enters a dark, weird schoolground where strange figures stand around misshapen metal drums in firelight; then he goes into the hideously rotting school for a bizarre class inmeasurement of cloacal forces. Time as a flow of sewage. The excrement of space, scatology of creation...'' He leaves, finding the moon "coated with a luminous mold, floating...in the great sewers of the night.'' Thirteen tales out of a maggoty delirium. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.