'Turn up the lights, ' he said on his deathbed.
Henry, master of the surprise ending, for our title. Which is to say that they're all very much At Home in the Dark-and we can thank O. And every last one of them packs a punch. They're all dark stories, with nothing cozy or comforting about them. "If you're looking for a common denominator, two come to mind. Block, Richard Chizmar, Hilary Davidson, Jim Fusilli, Elaine Kagan, Warren Moore, Joyce Carol Oates, Ed Park, Nancy Pickard, Thomas Pluck, Wallace Stroby, and Duane Swierczynski. "And now that I've singled out those three, I suppose I should go ahead and list the rest of the gang: N. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian, and Joe Hill's novelette slithers through a little doorway into another world. While there, her dogged pursuit of the truth leads her to unearth a cold case that everyone in town, including her own father, tried hard to bury. The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. Home Before Dark follows 'a young girl who moves from Brooklyn to the small coastal town her father left behind. At Home in the Dark by Lawrence Block Book PDF Summary
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