<div>Murder sparks witchcraft hysteria in this &ldquo;thoughtful&rdquo; and &ldquo;entertaining&rdquo; seventeenth-century historical mystery from a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author (Stephen King). It&rsquo;s 1699 in the coastal settlement of Fount Royal in the Carolinas when Rachel Howarth is sentenced to be hanged as a witch. She&rsquo;s been accused of murder, deviltry, and blasphemous sexual congress, and the beleaguered, God-fearing colonial village wants her dead. But Matthew Corbett, young clerk to the traveling magistrate summoned to Fount Royal to weigh the accusations, soon finds himself persuaded in favor of the beguiling young widow. Struck first by her beauty, Matthew believes Rachel to be too dignified, courageous, and intelligent for such obscene charges. The testimony against her is fanatical and unreliable. Clues to the crimes seem too convenient and contrived. A number of her accusers appear to gain by her execution. And, if Rachel is a witch, why hasn&rsquo;t she used her powers to fly away from the gaol on the wings of a nightbird? God and Satan are indeed at war. Something really is happening in the newly established settlement&mdash;of that Corbett is certain. As his investigation draws him into the darkness of a town gone mad, and deeper into its many secrets, Corbett realizes that time is running out for him, for Rachel, and for the hope that good could possibly win out over evil in Fount Royal. From the award-winning author of Boy&rsquo;s Life and Gone South, Speaks the Nightbird is an &ldquo;absorbing historical mystery&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly).</div>

Speaks the Nightbird

<div>An &ldquo;impressive&rdquo; tale of psychic power, Native American mysticism, and an ancient evil in Alabama, from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Swan Song (Associated Press). Born and raised in rural Alabama, Billy Creekmore was destined to be a psychic. His mother, a Choctaw Indian schooled in her tribe&rsquo;s ancient mysticism, understands the permeable barrier between life and death&mdash;and can cross it. She taught the power to Billy and now he helps the dead rest in peace. Wayne Falconer, son of one of the most fervent tent evangelists in the South, travels the country serving his father&rsquo;s healing ministry. Using his unique powers to cure the flock, Little Wayne is on his way to becoming one of the popular and successful miracle workers in the country. He helps the living survive. Billy and Wayne share more than a gift. They share a dream&mdash;and a common enemy. They are on separate journeys, mystery walks that will lead them toward a crossroad where the evil of their dreams has taken shape. One of them will reject the dark. The other will be consumed by it. But neither imagined just how monstrous and far-reaching the dark was, or that mankind&rsquo;s fate would rest in their hands during an epic showdown of good versus evil. From the author of Gone South, Boy&rsquo;s Life, and the Matthew Corbett series, a master of suspense who has won the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards, Mystery Walk offers &ldquo;creepy, subtle touches throughout [and] splendid Southern-town atmosphere&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews).</div>

Mystery Walk

<div>Poe&rsquo;s classic tale lives on in this gothic novel of ancestral madness in the mountains of modern-day North Carolina, from a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author. Ever since Edgar Allan Poe looted a family&rsquo;s ignoble secret history for his classic story &ldquo;The Fall of the House of Usher,&rdquo; living in the shadow of that sick dynasty has been an inescapable scourge for generations of Usher descendants. But not for horror novelist Rix Usher. Years ago, he fled the isolated family estate of Usherland in the menacing North Carolina hills to pursue his writing career. He promised never to return. But his father&rsquo;s impending death has brought Rix back home to assume the role of Usher patriarch&mdash;and face his worst fears. His arrival forces him to confront a devious and impassive family and his vulnerable sister&rsquo;s slow descent into insanity. Stirring memories of the grim folktales born out of the surrounding Briartop Mountains and the terrifying legends of missing children, Rix knows that in the dark, twisted corridors of Usherland, that dreadful something he saw as a young boy is still there. It&rsquo;s waiting for him, as decayed and undying as the Usher heritage, and more depraved than anything Poe could have imagined. This eerie novel by the Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning author of Swan Song and Boy&rsquo;s Life is &ldquo;a frightening pleasure&rdquo; and a worthy tribute to the master who inspired it (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). </div>

Usher's Passing

<div>New York Times Bestseller: A young girl&rsquo;s visions offer the last hope in a postapocalyptic wasteland in this &ldquo;grand and disturbing adventure&rdquo; (Dean Koontz). A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick Swan is a nine-year-old Idaho girl following her struggling mother from one trailer park to the next when she receives visions of doom&mdash;something far wider than the narrow scope of her own beleaguered life. In a blinding flash, nuclear bombs annihilate civilization, leaving only a few buried survivors to crawl onto a scorched landscape that was once America. In Manhattan, a homeless woman stumbles from the sewers, guided by the prophecies of a mysterious amulet, and pursued by something wicked; on Idaho&rsquo;s Blue Dome Mountain, an orphaned boy falls under the influence of depraved survivalists and discovers the value of a killer instinct; and amid the devastating dust storms on the Great Plains of Nebraska, Swan forms a heart-and-soul bond with an unlikely new companion. Soon they will cross paths. But only Swan knows that they must endure more than just a trek across an irradiated country of mutated animals, starvation, madmen, and wasteland warriors. Swan&rsquo;s visions tell of a coming malevolent force. It&rsquo;s a shape-shifting embodiment of the apocalypse, and of all that is evil and despairing. And it&rsquo;s hell-bent on destroying the last hope of goodness and purity in the world. Swan is that hope. Now, she must fight not only for her own survival, but for that of all mankind. A winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, Swan Song has become a modern classic, called &ldquo;a chilling vision that keeps you turning pages to the shocking end&rdquo; by John Saul and &ldquo;a long, satisfying look at hell and salvation&rdquo; by Publishers Weekly.</div>

Swan Song

<div>A relentless alien bounty hunter encloses a Texas town under a dome to isolate, hunt, and kill its prey in &ldquo;the ultimate horror novel&rdquo; (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Ever since the copper mine closed, the West Texas desert hellholes of Inferno and Bordertown have been slowly dying. Snake River isn&rsquo;t the only thing that divides them. Racism, gang wars, and anti-Mexican sentiment have turned the sun-scorched flatlands into a powder keg. If anything can unite them for now, at least in awe and wonder, it&rsquo;s the UFO that comes soaring out of the clouds like a flaming locomotive. In the wake of the crash, a young alien named Daufin has arrived, too. A fugitive who has taken the form of a human, she knows the terror that awaits the inhabitants of this planet&mdash;because it is looking for her. When Stinger, the monstrous alien bounty hunter, arrives, it&rsquo;s with a destructive fury and a devious plan to find Daufin&mdash;by entombing the residents in an impenetrable and inescapable dome. A relentless killing machine, Stinger has an infinite capacity for death and destruction. And over the next twenty-four hours, this town is going to bleed and burn. Now, the few remaining survivors must come together to protect Daufin, themselves, and the world beyond from total annihilation. From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning author of Swan Song, Stinger was called &ldquo;one of the best suspense novels of recent years&rdquo; by the Science Fiction Chronicle. </div>

Stinger

<div>Master spy, Nazi hunter&mdash;and werewolf on the prowl&mdash;in occupied Paris: A classic of dark fantasy from a Bram Stoker Award&mdash;winning author. Allied Intelligence has been warned: A Nazi strategy designed to thwart the D-Day invasion is underway. A Russian &eacute;migr&eacute; turned operative for the British Secret Service, Michael Gallatin has been brought out of retirement as a personal courier. His mission: Parachute into Nazi-occupied France, search out the informant under close watch by the Gestapo, and recover the vital information necessary to subvert the mysterious Nazi plan called Iron Fist. Fearlessly devoted to the challenge, Gallatin is the one agent uniquely qualified to meet it&mdash;he&rsquo;s a werewolf. Now, as shifting as the shadows on the dangerous streets of Paris, a master spy is on the scent of unimaginable evil. But with the Normandy landings only hours away, it&rsquo;s going to be a race against time. For Gallatin, caught in the dark heart of the Third Reich&rsquo;s twisted death machine, there is only one way to succeed. He must unleash his own internal demons and redefine the meaning of the horror of war. From the award-winning author of Swan Song and Boy&rsquo;s Life, this is a &ldquo;powerful novel [that] fuses WWII espionage thriller and dark fantasy. Richly detailed, intricately plotted, fast-paced historical suspense is enhanced by McCammon&rsquo;s unique take on the werewolf myth&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). </div>

The Wolf's Hour

<div>A psychopathic female fugitive provokes a mother&rsquo;s vengeance in this terrifying thriller by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Gone South and Boy&rsquo;s Life. Back in the 1960s, Mary Terrell shot and killed a man. A former member of the fanatical Storm Front Brigade&mdash;a splinter group of the notorious Weathermen&mdash;Terrell has stayed one step ahead of the FBI for decades. Living with numerous identities and menial jobs, Terrell&rsquo;s only constants in life have been LSD, psychotic delusions of motherhood, and murderous rage. The sixties are long gone, but Mary is still out there. Now, provoked by a message she reads in Rolling Stone, she&rsquo;s convinced that the surviving leader of her old band of radicals wants to build a life with her. So one night, Mary sneaks into the maternity ward of an Atlanta hospital. Laura Clayborne has a successful career and now, a newborn baby. She&rsquo;s the type of person who is sensitive to suffering and injustice. But the kidnapping of her infant son has brought out a white-hot fury. She&rsquo;s not going to sit and wait while the FBI investigates. She&rsquo;s going after Mary herself&mdash;headlong and relentless&mdash;on a twisting and violent cross-country pursuit to get her child back. But to track a madwoman, Laura will have to think like one . . . A Bram Stoker Award winner, this &ldquo;expertly constructed novel of suspense and horror&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly) from the author of Swan Song, Speaks the Nightbird, and other acclaimed works is &ldquo;feverishly exciting . . . a page-whipping thriller&rdquo; (Kirkus Reviews).</div>

Mine

<div>An Alabama boy&rsquo;s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Swan Song. It&rsquo;s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It&rsquo;s a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelve-year-old aspiring writer Cory Mackenson. He&rsquo;s certain he&rsquo;s sensed spirits whispering in the churchyard. He&rsquo;s heard of the weird bootleggers who lurk in the dark outside of town. He&rsquo;s seen a flood leave Main Street crawling with snakes. Cory thrills to all of it as only a young boy can. Then one morning, while accompanying his father on his milk route, he sees a car careen off the road and slowly sink into fathomless Saxon&rsquo;s Lake. His father dives into the icy water to rescue the driver, and finds a beaten corpse, naked and handcuffed to the steering wheel&mdash;a copper wire tightened around the stranger&rsquo;s neck. In time, the townsfolk seem to forget all about the unsolved murder. But Cory and his father can&rsquo;t. Their search for the truth is a journey into a world where innocence and evil collide. What lies before them is the stuff of fear and awe, magic and madness, fantasy and reality. As Cory wades into the deep end of Zephyr and all its mysteries, he&rsquo;ll discover that while the pleasures of childish things fade away, growing up can be a strange and beautiful ride. &ldquo;Strongly echoing the childhood-elegies of King and Bradbury, and every bit their equal,&rdquo; Boy&rsquo;s Life, a winner of both the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Awards, represents a brilliant blend of mystery and rich atmosphere, the finest work of one of today&rsquo;s most accomplished writers (Kirkus Reviews). </div>

Boy's Life

<div>A veteran&rsquo;s moment of rage leads to a chase through the bayou in this tale of &ldquo;jackhammer suspense&rdquo; by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Swan Song (Kirkus Reviews). Two decades after he finished serving his country in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Dan Lambert still pays the price. As he hustles for construction work in the heat of a brutal Louisiana summer, Dan tries to ignore the pounding in his head&mdash;a constant reminder of the Agent Orange&ndash;caused leukemia which will soon end his life. And now the bank wants to repossess his truck. His attempt to reason with the loan officer does not get him far. Dan loses himself in rage, and for a moment is back in the jungle again. When he comes out of his bloodlust, he has shot the banker through the chest. There is nothing to do but run. On his trail are two peculiar bounty hunters: a onetime Siamese twin and a heavyset Elvis impersonator. To save his own life, Dan is going to have to remember why it was worth living in the first place.</div>

Gone South

<div>Masterful and macabre short fiction from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Swan Song. Father John has lived his whole life without knowing a woman&rsquo;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 &ldquo;Blue World,&rdquo; the novella that anchors this collection of chilling stories by Robert R. McCammon. Although monsters, demons, and murderers fill these pages, in McCammon&rsquo;s world the most terrifying landscape of all is the barren wasteland of a lost man&rsquo;s soul.</div>

Blue World

<div>A woman gives birth to a child whose evilness threatens all mankind Mary Kate is an ordinary woman: a waitress in a diner, stuck in a loveless marriage to an English-major-turned-cabbie. But whoever assaults her in a New York City alley is far from ordinary. As the man&rsquo;s icy grip burns her skin, she couldn&rsquo;t grasp the dark fate that awaits her. The rape leaves her carrying a child, who she and her husband name Jeffrey. As they try to live as a family, a mysterious force poisons them against each other. Finally overcome with hate for her husband, Mary Kate kills him, sending herself to jail and the child to an orphanage. There the boy takes a new name, Baal, and develops sinister powers that flourish as he approaches adulthood. When Baal becomes a man, the whole world will tremble before him.</div>

Baal

<div>A family moves to a small town dominated by a murderous cult Despite its eerie name, Bethany&rsquo;s Sin is a pleasant place. After a life of grim poverty, this new community seems like heaven to Evan Reid and his family. With its quaint shops, manicured lawns, and fresh summer smell, the town charms the Vietnam veteran, his wife, and their daughter like nowhere else they have ever been. But beneath that cheerful fa&ccedil;ade lurks something deadly. As soon as they enter their new house, Evan is consumed by fear. He can&rsquo;t place its source, but there is something about the town&rsquo;s mayor, Kathryn Drago, which makes him uneasy. By day she is a harmless retired archaeologist. But at night she leads an Amazonian cult whose next ritual calls for a secret ingredient: the blood of Evan Reid.</div>

Bethany's Sin

<div>A scuba diver unearths a sunken U-boat that holds a terrible secret Robert Moore had a cushy life in Baltimore. The son of a bank president, he could have had the old man&rsquo;s job if he&rsquo;d just waited in line. But Moore isn&rsquo;t the patient type, and rather than spend his life trapped behind a desk, he decamped for the Caribbean, to pass his days diving beneath the perfect blue sea. One day, diving deeper than usual, he spies a sunken ship. His investigations disrupt an unexploded depth charge, which hurls Robert to the surface with the sunken ship not far behind. The U-boat, still seaworthy after all these decades, drifts towards the island and gets caught on the reef. A strange knocking echoes from inside the hull, as though something within is still alive. When Robert opens the long-closed hatch, he&rsquo;ll learn that some sunken treasure is better left undisturbed.</div>

The Night Boat

<div>A vampire turns Los Angeles into a city of the dead in this novel by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning author of Swan Song. The Kronsteen castle, a gothic monstrosity, looms over Los Angeles. Built during Hollywood&rsquo;s golden age for a long-dead screen idol with a taste for the macabre, it stands as a decaying reminder of the past. Since the owner&rsquo;s murder, no living thing has ever again taken up residence. But it isn&rsquo;t abandoned. Prince Conrad Vulkan, Hungarian master of the vampires, as old as the centuries, calls it home. His plan is to replace all humankind with his kind. And he&rsquo;s starting with the psychotic dregs of society in the City of Angels. The number of victims is growing night after night, and so is Vulkan&rsquo;s legion of the dead. As a glittering city bleeds into a necropolis, a band of vampire hunters takes action: an avenging young boy who saw his parents devoured; a television star whose lover has an affinity for the supernatural; a dying priest chosen by God to defend the world; a female reporter investigating a rash of cemetery desecrations; and LAPD homicide detective Andy Palatazin, an immigrant who survived a vampire attack in his native Hungary when he was child and has been hunting evil across the globe for decades. Palatazin knows that to stop the Prince of Darkness, one must invade his nest. He knows it&rsquo;s also a suicide mission. But it&rsquo;s the only way to save the city&mdash;and the world&mdash;from vampire domination. &ldquo;Suspenseful, exciting, and visceral,&rdquo; They Thirst is one of the earliest novels by the versatile author of such masterpieces as Boy&rsquo;s Life, The Wolf&rsquo;s Hour, and the Matthew Corbett series (Kirkus Reviews). </div>

They Thirst

<div>Four chilling tales from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Swan Song and the &ldquo;true master of the Gothic novel&rdquo; (Booklist). From rural Alabama to the Louisiana bayou to the North Carolina mountains, World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning author Robert R. McCammon has made the American South his own Gothic playground in these four unforgettable novels. A Boy&rsquo;s Life: &ldquo;Strongly echoing the childhood-elegies of King and Bradbury, and every bit their equal,&rdquo; McCammon&rsquo;s World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning novel takes place in 1964 Alabama, where a twelve-year-old boy&rsquo;s idyllic life takes an abrupt turn into a dark world of mystery when he and his father witness a car roll into a lake&mdash;only to discover a corpse handcuffed to the steering wheel (Kirkus Reviews). &ldquo;It&rsquo;s McCammon&rsquo;s The Prince of Tides. . . . Incredibly moving.&rdquo; &mdash;Peter Straub Mystery Walk: Two boys with mysterious powers&mdash;a psychic who speaks with the dead and a faith healer&mdash;share a common bond and hold mankind&rsquo;s fate in their hands in an epic showdown of good versus evil. &ldquo;As finely a turned tale of horror as the best of them.&rdquo; &mdash;Houston Chronicle Gone South: A veteran&rsquo;s moment of rage leads to a grisly murder and a heated chase deep into the bayou, where he encounters a pair of bizarre bounty hunters&mdash;and a strange new friend, who might help him find redemption. &ldquo;A gothic picaresque that mixes gritty plot and black comedy.&rdquo; &mdash;The Wall Street Journal Usher&rsquo;s Passing: Edgar Allan Poe&rsquo;s classic tale, &ldquo;The Fall of the House of Usher,&rdquo; is no fiction in this Gothic novel of ancestral madness in the mountains of modern-day North Carolina, as the heir to the Usher legacy&mdash;a horror novelist&mdash;confronts his terrifying inheritance. &ldquo;A frightening pleasure.&rdquo; &mdash;St. Louis Dispatch</div>

The Southern Novels

<div>From a New York Times&ndash;bestselling and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning author: Three novels with monsters ranging from alien to werewolf to vengeful moms. Whether writing Southern Gothic horror or reinventing the monster genre, World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning author Robert R. McCammon proves himself a master of a wide spectrum of modern horror and dark fantasy. In these three novels, McCammon presents a terrifying predator from another world, a werewolf war hero, and two crazy moms you do not want to mess with. Stinger: In this New York Times bestseller, when Stinger, a monstrous alien bounty hunter, crash-lands in the West Texas hellhole of Inferno in search of a young fugitive, the relentless creature encloses the town in an impenetrable and inescapable dome to isolate and kill its prey. Now, the few remaining survivors must band together to save the fugitive&mdash;who&rsquo;s taken the human form of a small girl&mdash;and themselves from annihilation. &ldquo;The ultimate horror novel.&rdquo; &mdash;The Philadelphia Inquirer &ldquo;One of the best suspense novels of recent years.&rdquo; &mdash;Science Fiction Chronicle The Wolf&rsquo;s Hour: Michael Gallatin&mdash;master spy, Nazi hunter . . . and werewolf. As the Allies&rsquo; secret weapon, the lycanthrope parachutes into occupied France to subvert a Nazi plan to thwart the D-Day invasion, code-named Iron Fist. With the Normandy landings only hours away, it&rsquo;s a race against time. The Nazis may have Iron Fist, but Gallatin comes with claws, in this New York Times bestseller. &ldquo;Powerful . . . fuses WWII espionage thriller and dark fantasy. Richly detailed, intricately plotted, fast-paced historical suspense is enhanced by McCammon&rsquo;s unique take on the werewolf myth.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly Mine: Suffering from psychotic delusions of motherhood, former sixties radical and FBI fugitive Mary Terrell sneaks into the maternity ward of an Atlanta hospital and snatches a newborn baby. Burning with primal maternal fury, the baby&rsquo;s mother, Laura Clayborne, is going after Mary herself on a twisted and violent cross-country pursuit. In this Bram Stoker Award winner, to track a madwoman, Laura will have to think like one . . . &ldquo;Feverishly exciting . . . a page-whipping thriller.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;An expertly constructed novel of suspense and horror.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Robert R. McCammon

Books By Robert R. McCammon (16 Books)