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From the author of the acclaimed novel THE SNOWMAN'S CHILDREN and the award-winning collection THE TWO SAMS comes American Morons, a new collection of dazzling and haunting tales... Two traveling college students confront their disintegrating relationship and the new American reality in a breakdown lane along the Italian Superstrade. A woman chases the ghost of her neglectful father to a vanished amusement park at the end of the Long Beach pier. Two recently retired teachers learn just how much Los Angeles has taken from them. In these atmospheric, wide-ranging, surprisingly playful, and deeply mournful stories, grandkids and widows,…

"Дети Снеговика" - это, по выражению критиков, новый вариант "Убить пересмешника" - каким его мог бы написать Стивен Кинг. Герой романа возвращается в места своего детства, в пригород Детройта, улицы которого тогда терроризировал серийный убийца по прозвищу Снеговик. Но не все призраки рассеялись, не все страхи остались в прошлом, не все расставлены точки над i...

With this unique collection, acclaimed author Glen Hirshberg breathes new life into an age-old literary tradition. In the title story a husband struggles with the grief and confusion of losing two children, and forms an odd bond with the infant spectrals that visit him in the night. “Dancing Men” depicts one of the creepiest rites of passage in recent memory when a boy visits his deranged grandfather in the New Mexico desert. “Struwwelpeter” introduces us to a brilliant, treacherous adolescent whose violent tendencies and reckless mischief reach a sinister pinnacle as Halloween descends on a rundown Pacific Northwest fishing village. Tormented by his guilty conscience, a young man plumbs the depths of atonement as he and his favorite cousin commune with the almighty Hawaiian surf in “Shipwreck Beach.” In “Mr. Dark’s Carnival,” a college professor confronts his own dark places in the form of a mysterious haunted house steeped in the folklore of grisly badlands justice.

Reeling from the violent death of her daughter and a confrontation with the Whistler--the monster who wrecked her life--Jess has fled the South for a tiny college town in New Hampshire. There she huddles in a fire-blackened house with her crippled lover, her infant grandson, and the creature that was once her daughter's best friend and may or may not be a threat.

Rebecca, a college student orphaned in childhood, cares for Jess's grandson, and finds in Jess's house the promise of a family she has never known, but also a terrifying secret.

Meanwhile, unhinged and unmoored, the Whistler watches from the rooftops and awaits his moment.

And deep in the Mississippi Delta, the evil that spawned him stirs...

Профессор колледжа, специализирующийся на мифологии Хеллоуина, обнаруживает страшную правду, кроющуюся за местной легендой о Карнавале судьи Дарка. Выброшенный на мель у Гавайев корабль, не числящийся ни в одном судоходстве мира, зовет одинокие души на Берег разбитых кораблей. От автора "Детей снеговика" ("современный вариант "Убить пересмешника", каким его мог бы написать Стивен Кинг") - пять историй о призраках и гипнотических воспоминаниях, о чудовищах воображаемых и реальных, об очищающей боли и тихом ужасе повседневности.