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Nocturnes / John Connolly.

Connolly, John, 1968- (Author).

Summary:

"In his first collection of short fiction, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly offers a selection of dark, daring, and utterly haunting tales. Here are lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts. In ""The New Daughter, "" a father comes to suspect that a burial mound on his land hides something very ancient, and very much alive; in ""The Underbury Witches, "" a pair of London detectives find themselves battling a particularly female evil in a town culled of its menfolk. And finally, private detective Charlie Parker returns in the long novella ""The Reflecting Eye, "" in which the photograph of an unknown girl turns up in the mailbox of an abandoned house once occupied by an infamous killer. This discovery forces Parker to confront the possibility that the house is not as empty as it appears, and that something has been waiting in the darkness for its chance to kill again.

Record details

ISBN: 1416534601
ISBN: 9781416534600
Physical Description: 474 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: Atria books trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes an excerpt from The book of lost things.

Formatted Contents Note:

The cancer cowboy rides -- Mr. Pettinger's daemon -- The erlking -- The new daughter -- The ritual of the bones -- The furnace room -- The Underbury witches -- The inkpot monkey -- The shifting of the sands -- Some children wander by mistake -- Deep, dark green -- Miss Froom, vampire -- Nocturne -- The Wakeford abyss -- The reflecting eye: a Charlie Parker novella -- The bridal bed -- The man from the second fifteen -- The inn at Shillingford -- Mr. Gray's folly -- The cycle.