false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166480059m/11555.jpg 11555 7 "We will travel, you and I, across a tortured land where hope struggles to grow like seed in a drought. In this land, a place with no boundaries, we'll run the freeways and back roads and we'll listen to the song of the wheels and peer into windows at lives that might be our own, if we lived in that land." So Robert McCammon introduces this superb collection of 13 stories, nominated for a 1990 Bram Stoker Award for Best Story Collection. The standouts are "Blue World" (a richly imagined novella about a priest facing temptation); "Nightcrawlers" (a World Fantasy Award-winner about a Vietnam vet in a roadside diner); "Night Calls the Green Falcon" (has-been fictional hero dons his old costume to fight real evil); "Yellowjacket Summer" (fateful stop for gas in backwoods Georgia); and "Pin" (dare you to read that one). All of the stories are excellent. 451104 1989 Blue World total:290|5:66|4:104|3:95|2:21|1:4| 290 1077 373 16 5 0 false false Wed Feb 04 12:55:17 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 12:56:17 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 17:40:25 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 17:42:48 -0700 2009 The last story is Blue World - the best by far. Was a great lead in to Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker (both set in LA)]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 23:19:49 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 23:21:05 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Thu Mar 26 22:14:47 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 22:15:56 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Feb 11 06:51:22 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 06:51:35 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Apr 29 18:03:49 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 18:06:41 -0700 2008 I grabbed it on a whim and was pleasantly surprised by the stories and writing. I was on a big horror kick back in the late 80's/early 90's and most of it can just be thrown away after o...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Aug 12 22:13:39 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 22:36:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 08 12:52:52 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 18:35:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 14 00:57:55 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 01:01:52 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 03:18:31 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 04:23:47 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Sat Jun 23 18:52:50 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 18:52:50 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Thu May 17 20:59:21 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 02 23:47:41 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1994 Thu Oct 16 09:29:40 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 09:33:39 -0700 2008 1
Especially the ZOMBIE one about the Babies. Worth finding this book just for that story.]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 04 12:32:29 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 12:33:09 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Wed Jul 16 19:05:42 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 23:25:05 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jul 05 18:03:04 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 18:03:57 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 27 16:04:13 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 27 16:04:13 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Nov 21 19:44:56 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 19:44:56 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Nov 21 09:43:01 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 09:43:01 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 18 12:20:08 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 12:20:08 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=11555