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Bram Stoker Best Novel Award Finalist and International Horror Guild Best Novel Award Winner Two couples, both skeptical and desperate, are drawn together by a medium named Oona, a fragile, beautiful young woman who knows things that no other living person should know. Is her gift real, or is it the sign of a consuming madness? Can she lead them all to important truths, or will they be trapped in the tightening web of terror and death?

Ned was only a kid, but he knew. There were forces that stalked the night. Like that night in Washington when his mother almost died and he heard them. In the house, at the dead of night he heard them. Then they moved to the tiny seacoast town of Lynnington, he still knew, even there, something was coming after him. In the end, Ned must face the terror alone. He must seek out the phantoms on their own ground and fight them for his very soul. Through a long night of cataclysmic battle... It's him up against them...

Beware the Blade... Jackie is lost. A college student stuck in a loveless marriage, she feels she cannot escape the monotony of her life. Then along comes Brooks, a mysterious but successful lawyer with political ambitions. He's passionate, a true lover. But someone else has come to town. Brooks, Jackie discovers, is tracking a serial killer known as The Blade, whose victims are exclusively teenage girls. The killer is on a rampage, pursuing several women. Soon, many turn up dead - brutally murdered by the Blade. As he goes on however, he begins to get carried away with the killings and makes mistakes. Soon, the situation rises above boiling point. As Jackie has a confusing encounter with the man who appears to be the murderer, she is forced to decide: With the intensity of both the murders and her relationship hotting up, will she be able to keep her head? Will she be able to control herself? Or will the Blade add Jackie's name to his list?

World of Hurt gathers together for the first time twenty eight short stories and novellas by the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of horror and suspense, Thomas Tessier. By turns disturbing, mysterious, harrowing and horrifying, these tales illuminate the darkness swirling on the edge of what is real and what is not -- in both the world around us and in the lives of people caught up in it. Thomas Tessier's novels and stories have defied and pushed beyond genre expectations and norms, and World of Hurt is a milestone collection of his work.Stories included in this collection: In the Desert of DesertsThe Vacant LotEvelyn GraceThe BansheeBlancaA Grub Street TaleGhost MusicLa MouranteThe Infestation at RallsInfidelThe Woman in the Club CarCuring HitlerThe Green MenaceIn Praise of FollyThe VentriloquistTorching the EscaladeFoodNocturneClub SaudadeFor No OneLuluIf You See Me, Say HelloIn the Sand Hills10-31-2001I Remember MeThe Dreams of Dr. LadybankScramburg, USAFather Panic's Opera Macabr

Bobby Ives doesn't mean to kill. When his first victim ends up beneath the wheels of a London city bus, he almost succeeds in convincing himself it was an accident. Until the day he sees the jogger and a strange and uncontrollable sensation begins to course through his limbs. An animalistic urge to run, to chase, to hunt ... and to kill. Soon the city is gripped by a reign of terror, and night after night the beast will silently stalk the streets, its bloody jaws and tearing claws leaving only death in its wake.Thomas Tessier's first novel The Nightwalker (1979) is a contemporary horror classic and is recognized as one of the finest werewolf novels ever published. This new edition includes an afterword by the author. 'The Nightwalker is very likely the most unusual occult novel I have ever read, and not just because of its unusual excellence.... I think it will be read for a long time.'-Peter Straub'I've been telling people for years that the werewolf novel is the toughest of the "classic" monster stories to do, but Tessier pulls it off with considerable panache. The Nightwalker is very good indeed, scary, grim, and fast-paced.'-Stephen King