AWARDS Nominee: 2005 CWA Short Story Dagger Award, for 'Miss Froom, Vampire' SYNOPSIS
In the novella THE CANCER COWBOY RIDES a New Hampshire town is infected by the arrival of a tormented stranger; in SOME CHILDREN WANDER BY MISTAKE a sinister circus returns to reap the fruits of seeds sown many years before; in THE NEW DAUGHTER a father comes to suspect that a burial mound on his land hides something very ancient, and very much alive; and in THE UNDERBURY WITCHES a pair of London detectives find themselves battling a particularly female evil in a town culled of its menfolk; Finally, private detective Charlie Parker returns in the long novella, THE REFLECTING EYE. The photograph of an unknown girl turns up in the mail box of an abandoned house once occupied by an infamous killer, forcing Parker to confront the possibility that the house of John Grady is not as empty as it appears, and that something has been waiting in the darkness for its chance to kill again... CONTENTS
REVISED US EDITION (2006): THE EXTRA STORIES The original 15 plus: 16. The Bridal Bed 17. The Man from the Second Fifteen 18. The Inn at Shillingford 19. MR. GRAY'S FOLLY 20. THE CYCLE DEDICATION For Adèle, who will always be missed COPYRIGHT ©2004 John Connolly  HB - 404 pages - 11/10/2004 - ISBN: 0340834587  Hodder & Stoughton (UK, Ireland, Australia, etc.) PB - 41 pages - 11/10/2004 - ISBN: NONE Nocturnes - A Coda  PB - 406 pages - 22/03/2005 - ISBN: 0743270193 Original edition with just 13 stories.  PB - 496 pages - 10/10/2006 - ISBN: 9781416534600 Revised edition with 5 extra stories. THE COLLECTED
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