false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172432904m/175248.jpg 175248 16 Bestselling author John Connolly's first collection of short fiction, <I>Nocturnes,</i> now features five additional stories -- never-before published for an American audience -- in a dark, daring, utterly haunting anthology of 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," two 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.<P><P> 2919130 2004 Nocturnes total:345|5:69|4:133|3:110|2:22|1:11| 345 1262 649 60 3 1 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 23:02:24 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 23:14:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 11:54:22 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 11:58:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 14:17:06 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 07:58:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 10:07:16 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 06:23:26 -0700 2009 Nocturnes; if I'd taken it out from the library instead of purchasing it (even for $5) I probably would have stopped. The prose was deft and colorful at points, but the stories just didn't deliver for me, and when you tapped on the side of a finished piece until t...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 23:29:56 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 23:33:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 20:23:24 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 11:43:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Aug 01 14:28:34 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 14:31:57 -0700 2009
I just wanted to share this particular bit of shitty writing: "...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 12 22:21:44 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 22:21:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 12 17:08:32 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 19:49:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 03 05:41:39 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 09:45:06 -0700 2007 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," as father comes to sus...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 07:25:24 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 03:38:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 13 13:41:46 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 23 18:36:03 -0700 2008 Neil Gaiman's short story collections, I still enjoyed most of them. The opening story, The Cancer Cowboy Rides, is...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 15 02:15:13 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 02:17:25 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Thu Oct 01 07:34:29 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 07:36:36 -0700 2009 3 0 true false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 17:58:29 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 01 19:22:34 -0800 2009 1 The Book of Lost Things (one of my favorites).]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 20 21:05:35 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 21:06:35 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 15 11:23:49 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 11:25:34 -0700 2009
A full review can be found at http://www.suite101.com/functions/articl... ]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 11 09:32:49 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 09:33:42 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 23:40:32 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 03:21:16 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Sep 11 12:42:28 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 18:47:52 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=175248