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At Home in the Dark

By: Lawrence Block - editor
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot, Teri Schnaubelt
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Summary

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. 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. And now that I've singled out those three, I suppose I should go ahead and list the rest of the gang: N. J. Ayres, Laura Benedict, Jill D. 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. If you're looking for a common denominator, two come to mind. They're all dark stories, with nothing cozy or comforting about them. And every last one of them packs a punch. Which is to say that they're all very much At Home in the Dark - and we can thank O. Henry, master of the surprise ending, for our title. 'Turn up the lights,' he said on his deathbed. 'I don't want to go home in the dark.'”

Contains mature themes.

  • copyright 2019 by Elaine Kagan (“Hot Pants”);
  • copyright 2019 by Jim Fusilli (“The Eve of Infamy”);
  • copyright 2019 by James Reasoner (“Night Rounds”);
  • copyright 2019 by Joyce Carol Oates (“The Flagellant”);
  • copyright 2019 by Ed Park (“The Things I’d Do”);
  • copyright 2019 by N. J. Ayres (“Favored to Death”);
  • copyright 2019 by Warren Moore (“Rough Mix”);
  • copyright 2019 by Laura Benedict (“This Strange Bargain”);
  • copyright 2019 by Joe R. Lansdale (“The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team”);
  • copyright 2019 by Nancy Pickard (“If Only You Would Leave Me”);
  • copyright 2019 by Duane Swierczynski (“Giant’s Despair”);
  • copyright 2019 by Richard Chizmar (“Whistling in the Dark”);
  • copyright 2019 by Jill D. Block (“O, Swear Not by the Moon”);
  • copyright 2019 by Wallace Stroby (“Nightbound”);
  • copyright 2019 by Thomas Pluck (“The Cucuzza Curse”);
  • copyright 2019 by Hilary Davidson (“Cold Comfort”);
  • copyright 2019 by Joe Hill (“Faun”)
©2019 Lawrence Block (P)2020 Tantor
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