Blue WorldMasterful and macabre short fiction from the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song. Father John has lived his whole life without knowing a woman’s touch. Hard at first, his self-denial grew easier over time, as he learned to master his urges with a regimen of prayer, cold showers, and jigsaw puzzles. That changed the day that Debra Rocks entered his confessional. A rough-talking adult film actress, she has come to ask him to pray for a murdered costar. Her cinnamon perfume infects Father John, and after she departs he becomes obsessed. Around the corner from his church is a neon-lit alley of sin. He goes there hoping to save her life before he damns himself. That is “Blue World,” the novella that anchors this collection of chilling stories by Robert R. McCammon. Although monsters, demons, and murderers fill these pages, in McCammon’s world the most terrifying landscape of all is the barren wasteland of a lost man’s soul. |
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Makeup | |
Doom City | |
Scream Man | |
Chico | |
Night Calls the Green Falcon | |
Never Say | |
An Old Relic | |
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A Red Matchbook | |
OneEyed Skulls | |
The Star and Question Mark | |
Handful of Straws | |
The Watchman | |
Yours Truly | |
Hell or High Water | |
Nightmare Netherworld | |
The Red House | |
Something Passed | |
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