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"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.… (más)
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For Adèle, who will always be missed
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The rutted track was playing hell with Jerry Schneider's shocks.
Citas
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I watched him draw upon the stem until I could abide the sucking of his lips no longer, then turned my attention to the volumes upon his shelves. I wondered how many of them the bishop had read. He seemed to me to be the kind of man who distrusted books, wary of the seeds of sedition and independent thought that they might sow in minds less disciplined than his own. From 'Mr Pettinger's Daemon', pp. 81–2
But he never spoke of the Erlking. All that my father would say was that I should not venture into the woods alone, and that I should never stay out beyond nightfall. There were things out there, he would say: wolves, and worse-than-wolves. There is myth, and there is reality; one we tell, and one we hide. We create monsters, and hope that the lessons wrapped in their tales will serve to guide us when we encounter that which is most terrible in life. We give forged names to our fears, and pray that we may face nothing worse than what we ourselves have created. We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms. From 'The Erlking', pp. 97–8
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Or open, perhaps, depending upon one's misfortune.
"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.
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