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A Child Across the Sky

7 best books like A Child Across the Sky (Jonathan Carroll): The Cellar, "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman, The House of God, The Luminous Dead, The Elementals, A Winter Haunting, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

The Cellar
AuthorRichard Laymon
ISBN0843957484
Well! There must be something wrong with me because I really enjoyed reading this twisted story. I thought this was my first Richard Laymon book but when I reached a certain part, I realized I read this book when I was still a teenager and never forgot how disturbing it was but I had no idea it was an R.L. book....
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
AuthorHarlan Ellison
ISBN1887424350
In a future where humanity has become obsessed with timekeeping and punctuality, a single mysterious figure tries to make a change, by wasting everybody's time.

Try reading that in a deep movie trailer voice.

“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman is a whimsical and satirical...
The House of God
AuthorSamuel Shem
ISBN0385337388
The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know.

Six eager interns  -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be.   They came from the top of their medical school class  to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a  year in...
The Luminous Dead
AuthorCaitlin Starling
A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival.

When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition,...
The Elementals
AuthorMichael McDowell
ISBN0380783606
On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching sand. Two of the houses at Beldame are still used. The third house, filling with sand, is empty...except for the vicious horror which is shaping nightmares from the nothingness that hangs in the dank, fetid...
A Winter Haunting
AuthorDan Simmons
ISBN0380817160
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted...
Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
AuthorElmore Leonard
ISBN0061451460
"These are the rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story."—Elmore Leonard

For aspiring writers and lovers of the written word, this concise guide breaks down the writing process with...
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