There is a song you dare not sing - a melody that you dare not play, a concerto that you dare not hear: It is called a Song of Power. It is a gateway to another world - a gate that will lock behind you as you pass, barring you from the Earth forever. Resist at all cost. For it is a world of great danger and great beauty - and it is not good to be human in the Realm of the Sidhe.

Adam Steele was doing the shopping. The girl, blonde and bright, checked off the rest of his list and started packing it all away in a gunny sack. The old man, her grandfather, looked proudly down at her as he rummaged around on a high shelf at the back of the little general store. Then brought out the special offer that might tempt the stranger who'd just ridden into the small town of Barclay, Texas.One 9mm Belgian Lefaucheux revolver, finely engraved ... His sales pitch was interrupted.Three new customers who burst in and weren't about to wait their turn to be served. Who weren't armed with shopping lists but with guns. Who wanted not provisions but money and didn't aim to pay but to kill.Three masked men who didn't know that Steele was not a man to interrupt when he was going about his domestic chores.

When Roger Rorch, the talented chairman of the London-based advertising agency RTB, supposedly commits suicide, banker and detective Mark Treasure is certain that all is not as it seems.Treasure's search for foul play reveals a tangled web of deals and egos - Rorch was defying his partners by opposing a £2m takeover bid by a huge New York firm; RTB's most powerful client stands to lose a fortune if the sale goes ahead; and the head of the rival Fentley agency is also deeply involved, and not just because his wife has her own key to Rorch's riverside London penthouse...With his own bank interested in the fate of RTB, it's up to Treasure to follow the clues and overturn the coroner's verdict of accidental death - and to substitute one of murder.A classic 'ad-land' mystery, Advertise for Treasure is the seventh installment in David Williams' brilliantly witty Mark Treasure detective series and elicited comparisons to Dorothy L, Sayers' Murder Must Advertise...

Revenge, Love, and the Struggle of a Fledgling Nation Collide in The Captain's Lady by Jo Goodman—Circa 1812, Island of Tortola; Washington—It's revenge that Alex Danty seeks after British Naval officer, Captain Travers, brings terror and murder to her Caribbean island home. Gravely injured protecting her loved ones, she's rescued by an American ship's crew. Devastated by the loss of her loved ones, Alex swears an oath to find and kill Travers.Captain Tanner Cloud, understands why Alex doesn't thank him for his interference, but he refuses to return to her home and begin what he believes is a mad search for Travers. He's also deeply attracted to the beautiful Alex Danty and takes her from her island home to protect her.While the attraction between Alex and Tanner grows aboard his ship, she never stops promising to escape while he never stops promising to stop her. She wins, and sets out to do exactly as she'd vowed.Two years later, Alex has...

Joe's. People in Windville love that old diner at the far end of town. For them, coming to Joe's is a way of life. It may soon be a way of death.

An anthology of twenty horror stories features an all-star list of best-selling authors, including Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, William F. Nolan, Stephen R. Donaldson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Tanith Lee, and Eric Lustbader. Reprint." Amazon.com Review As editor Charles Grant writes, "These stories are variously graphic, quiet, oriented toward the supernatural, aimed at the psychological; some are bludgeons and some are razors; some will ask you for more work than others, and some will do their work more than once--like the shock of a virulent poison entering your system ... and the aftertaste that lingers." Horror fans should jump at the chance to pick up this reprint of the 1983 Dodd Mead Gallery of Horror: the 20 stories include several classics not readily available elsewhere, such as Joseph Payne Brennan's singularly creepy "Canavan's Back Yard," and Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann's powerful World War II story, "Down Among the Dead Men." Stephen R. Donald's "The Conqueror Worm" has a great shocker of an ending; Michael Bishop's wacky werewolf tale is hilarious; and T. E. D. Klein's "Petey" is one of the best city-folk-in-the-country stories ever written. Grant has won multiple World Fantasy Awards for his horror fiction and editing/publishing work in the field; he edited the acclaimed Shadows anthology series from 1978 to 1991. Table of Contents Introduction 1 - William F. Nolan - Something Nasty 2 - Joseph Payne Brennan - Canavan's Back Yard 3 - Stephen R. Donaldson - The Conqueror Worm 4 - Alan Ryan - Death to the Easter Bunny 5 - Robert Bloch - The Rubber Room 6 - T.E.D. Klein - Petey 7 - Bernard Taylor - Out of Sorts 8 - Ramsey Campbell - The Sunshine Club 9 - Gardner Dozois - Down Among the Dead Men 10 - John Coyne - The Crazy Chinaman 11 - Michael Bishop - Gravid Babies 12 - Dennis Etchison - The Chair 13 - David Moffell - The Typewriter 14 - Tanith Lee - Nune Dimittis 15 - Steve Rasnic Tem - Derelicts 16 - Eric Van Lustbader - In Darkness, Angels 17 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - The Arrows 18 - Theodore Sturgeon - Talent 19 - Craig Shaw Gardner - Aim for the Heart 20 - Stephen King - Nona

They're bad news wherever they go. It was the first of August, 1943, and the Twenty-third Infantry Regiment moved west through the jungle of New Georgia. Slogging their way through steaming jungles choked with blood, heading for the main military objective on the island, the Japanese airfield on Munda Point. Digging out from the stone-cold tunnels of an underground tomb. To them, death is just a sick joke — a joke played on anyone dumb enough to stand in their way. Nothing is more important to The Rat Bastards as winning.

Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. On a snowy Thanksgiving day in North Carolina, a dreamy eight-year-old is pushed headlong into the adult world by a violent quarrel between his parents. Jim Grimsley's brilliant first novel unfolds in a strikingly unconventional way—as the boy tells himself his own story. A shattering story of heartbreak, violence, and the endurance of the spirit. "Tell everyone."—Dorothy Allison, author of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA.

Pick one, grab, and run. Tony Matheson makes his living snatching purses. But one of these days he's going to grab the wrong one.

In this prizewinning portrait of a time and place -- Montana in the 1930s -- that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past, Ivan Doig has created one of the most captivating families in American fiction, the McCaskills.The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of the Two Medicine country's summer: the tide of sheep moving into the high country, the capering Fourth of July rodeo and community dance, and an end-of-August forest fire high in the Rockies that brings the book, as well as the McCaskill family's struggle within itself, to a stunning climax. It is a season of escapade as well as drama, during which fourteen-year-old Jick comes of age. Through his eyes we see those nearest and dearest to him at a turning point -- "where all four of our lives made their bend" -- and discover along with him his own connection to the land, to history, and to the deep-fathomed mysteries of one's kin and one's self.

The teachings of the groundbreaking Buddhist Zen Master: "Should remain for years to come the standard source book for the Western student of Zen" (Douglas Harding, The Middle Way). The eccentric Bankei (1622–1693) has long been an underground hero in the world of Zen. At a time when Zen was becoming overly formalized in Japan, he stressed its relevance to everyday life, insisting on the importance of naturalness and spontaneity. This volume presents his teachings—as refreshing and iconoclastic today as they were three hundred years ago—in a fluent translation by Peter Haskel, accompanied by a vivid account of Bankei's life and times, illustrations, and extensive notes for the scholar. "Mr. Haskel has furnished us with an accurate and polished translation that fully captures the lively colloquial style of the original. The late Professor Hakeda has rendered invaluable assistance in resolving many linguistic problems and in...

The quiet of the jungle is shattered by a single command. The air fills with voices of death. A Texas cattle call. An Apache war whoop. A piercing scream of bloody blue murder. A killing chorus of zinging hot lead. A mighty green wave surges up the hill. The Rat Bastards are on the rampage, and what the enemy began, they are about to finish ...

Down the long years after the great devastation, the people of the Coven survived by living in harmony with nature and the old gods, and through the strange mental powers that linked them, one to another. Yet in their midst stood the City, the last refuge of the forgotten science, an isolated fortress protected by the Self-Gate, a barrier that destroyed all who crossed it by showing them their own darkest fears.But when the dual threats of war and plague threatened to shatter the long peace of the Coveners, one among them knew the time had come to breach the Citadel...and begin the reconciliation of mankind’s long-parted descendants.The first volume of a projected trilogy that continues with WINTERMIND, THE MASTERS OF SOLITUDE is a modern science fiction classic, an epic saga of humanity’s struggle to prevail.

THE STRANGER He came to observe life on earth—that's what happens when a peace-loving alien takes the friendly invitations we send into space seriously. But the U.S. Air Force shot down the starman's ship, and now he has to clone the body of a human being just to stay alive. Armed with a smattering of earthly lore (how to say hello in Chinese, the Stones "Satisfaction") collected from Voyager II, as well as his own mind-boggling extraterrestrial powers, he will set off with a beautiful young earth woman on what will become the greatest adventure of their lives—a dangerous flight across America into the unexplored territory of interplanetary love . . .