A Requiem for Dead Flies

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Author: Peter Dudar

Publisher: Nightscape Press, Llp

Published: 2012-06-19

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9781938644009

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After their mother's miscarriage, Lester and Gordon MacAuley were sent to Battle View Farm to stay with their grandmother for the summer. But the house on Battle View Farm has a haunting secret. As Grandma Vivian slowly slipped into madness, the brothers' lives became entangled in mortal danger. That summer of terror left them scarred and plagued by the family's dark secret. Now, years later, the MacAuley brothers have returned with dreams of breathing new life into Battle View Farm. But living in the house on Battle View Farm, they are forced to face their past and solve the mystery that began generations ago. And to face the ghosts that still haunt their family's legacy. A legacy written in dead flies. "Peter N. Dudar has just made me a fan. A Requiem for Dead Flies is beautifully eerie. There are very few horror authors working today who have Dudar's skill at putting ordinary people into such terrifying situations. The dark descent into memory and family secrets waiting for the MacAuley brothers is almost too much - it would be too much, too like a nightmare you just can't wake up from - if it weren't for Dudar's smooth eloquence. Seriously, the pages go down as easily as a fine bourbon. Just don't let your guard down, because like a fine bourbon, this book's got a bite to it. A first class chiller!" -Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters and Dead City "Peter Dudar's A REQUIEM FOR DEAD FLIES is an original twist on the modern ghost story. In rural New York on a lonesome family farm, Dudar layers on the tension in a perfectly paced narrative, leading to a surprising and horrific ending. A REQUIEM is an outstanding first novel and I highly recommend it." -Holly Newstein, co-author of ASHES and THE EPICURE, as H.R. Howland. "Peter N. Dudar is a natural born storyteller who brings his characters to vivid life. In A REQUIEM FOR DEAD FLIES, he gives us the tale of the MacAuley brothers who, in trying to get a fresh start, instead collide with a wall of grief, built from the debris of tragic family secrets. A bright new voice in the horror genre, and a book not to be missed." -L.L. Soares, Author of LIFE RAGE and IN SICKNESS

Such Pretty Confusion

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Author: Peter N. Dudar

Publisher: Trepidatio Publishing

Published: 2023-08-18

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1685101097

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What does a damaged mind dream about? Does it imagine everyday horrors we’re all familiar with, with morbid notions of pain and suffering and loss? Or does it dig a little deeper into those psychological spaces where we hide our darkest secrets and existential dreads? Or is it a darkened void, waiting to trap unsuspecting readers and steal their souls, leaving their minds twisted with SUCH PRETTY CONFUSION? This collection of dark fiction spans over two decades of nightmares from Maine author Peter N. Dudar. The stories selected are his personal favorites, including several new, unpublished pieces with razor-sharp edges. So please consider yourself invited to come play for awhile inside his damaged mind and discover what nightmares await you. “As you enter the world of Peter N. Dudar, you’re in for a treat. And some moments that will make you uncomfortable. But this is horror fiction, after all (except for that one story that takes place in the future) and we in the world of horror gladly take the uncomfortable along with the grandiose, the good with the bad, the highest highs and the dirtiest lows. We enjoy all the flavors at the feast.” —from the introduction by L. L. Soares

In the Spooklight

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Author: Michael Arruda

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2018-04-07

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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IN THE SPOOKLIGHT is a collection of 115 horror movie review columns by Stoker nominated author and film critic Michael Arruda, covering movies from the silent era up until today. The column "In the Spooklight" has appeared monthly in the pages of THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION since the summer of 2000. If you love horror movies, you're sure to enjoy Arruda's take on the genre. It's informative, humorous, and most of all, it's a heck of a lot of fun. Make a movie monster happy.

Grimm Up North

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Author: David J Gatward

Publisher:

Published: 2023-11-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781917001007

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A young woman vanishes without a trace. Can an ex-soldier-turned-copper keep a mystery from becoming a tragedy? A thrilling detective series from Kindle Storyteller Award shortlisted author David J Gatward.

The Angel of Death

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Author: Peter N. Dudar

Publisher: Nightscape Press, Llp

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781938644153

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From the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of A Requiem for Dead Flies. Everyone has done something evil. Frank is planning to murder his ex-wife. Working a construction job by day and driving a cab by night, Frank is slowly falling apart just trying to make ends meet. He's poisoned by the toxic relationship with the mother of his children; all for the sake of staying in their lives. But the more he gives, the more she takes away, until he's stripped of everything. And when she finally files the restraining order to keep him away from his kids, Frank is pushed over the brink of sanity. The ex-Mrs. Blake deserves to die, and Frank buys the gun and puts his plan into motion. Malcolm owns a bar in downtown Portland. In his decades of running MacAuley's of Scotland, he's seen every form of sin and iniquity the city has to offer. But Mal has his own sins to hide from. His past life as a World War II pilot, and the death of innocent people he inadvertently caused has always haunted him. It's been the catalyst for his downward spiral of sin and degradation. Until he realizes that he's marked for damnation. A man can only live so long and run so far from the past... Both men are on the brink of darkness until the Angel of Death pays one of them a visit. Salvation is at hand. But how far will one man go to save himself? Can he save his friend from the very same fate?

Beyond Marginality

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Author: Efraim Sicher

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1438419945

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In a unique study of Anglo-Jewish writers in the post-war period, Dr. Sicher traces through their works the story of the rise of the Jewish community from slum poverty to suburban affluence. This period is one of crucial social change in Britain. At the same time, Dr. Sicher raises serious questions about the modern writer's cultural and ethnic identity. In this process, Dr. Sicher advances the thesis that, under the impetus of the Holocaust, the more traditional conflict between Jewish roots and assimilation has been succeeded by a reassessment of identity and morality. Dr. Sicher's perspective on this particular period of literature is a highly original one and it should provoke creative reconsideration of other contexts and times as well.

The Long-Legged Fly

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Author: James Sallis

Publisher: Soho Press

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1641291443

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As much a classic detective story as it is a literary masterpiece, The Long-Legged Fly introduces us to Lew Griffin: tough, smart, and living in a corner of society where life is fought for as much as it is lived. In steamy New Orleans, black private detective Lew Griffin has taken on a seemingly hopeless missing-person case. The trail takes him through the underbelly of the French Quarter with its bar girls, pimps, and tourist attractions. As his search leads to one violent dead end and then another, Griffin is confronted by the realization that his own life has come to resemble those of the people he is attempting to find.

Requiem for the Orchard

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Author: Oliver De la Paz

Publisher: The University of Akron Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1931968748

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These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel / was the tallest thing in the valley, ' where a boy would learn 'to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck / with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel.' . . . In spite of such hardscrabble cruelties"or because of them"there is also a real tenderness in these poems, the revelations of bliss driving along an empty highway 'like opening a heavy book, / letting the pages feather themselves and finding a dried flower.' . . . The poet has a gift for rendering his world in cinematic images. . . . In short, these poems are the stuff of life itself, ugly and beautiful, wherever or whenever we happen to live it. "Martin Espada