Every Shallow Cut
8 best books like Every Shallow Cut (Tom Piccirilli): Wanderers, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, Nightmare Alley, The Big Clock, Under the Fang, Thieves Like Us, Coldbrook
A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope.
Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she...
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Horace McCoy’s 1935 novel They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? contains one of the bleakest lines in all of literature. It’s where Gloria, who dances in the marathon dance, asks without a trace of irony or black humor, ”Why are these high-powered scientists always screwing around trying...
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
Author | C.A. Fletcher |
ISBN | 0316449458 |
When a beloved family dog is stolen, her owner sets out on a life-changing journey through the ruins of our world to bring her back in this fiercely compelling tale of survival, courage, and hope. Perfect for readers of Station Eleven and The Girl With All the Gifts.
My name's Griz. My childhood...
Author | William Lindsay Gresham |
ISBN | 1590173481 |
Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low....
Author | Kenneth Fearing |
ISBN | 1590171810 |
George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate that bears a striking resemblance to Time, Inc. in the heyday of Henry Luce. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroud has a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfriend...
Author | Robert R. McCammon |
ISBN | 0671695738 |
THEY'VE WON...
They came in the night, to the towns and cities. Like a slow, insidious virus they spread from house to house, building to building, from graveyard to bedroom and cellar to boardroom. They are ancient and deathless, sun-shy and bloodthirsty. For millennia their vile compulsion...
Author | Edward Anderson |
ISBN | 1853753114 |
"One of the great forgotten novels of the 30s."
- Raymond Chandler
Somewhere between the hardboiled talk of Dashiell Hammett and the dustbowl poetry of John Steinbeck lies the doomed romanticism of Edward Anderson's 'Thieves Like Us'. When three small-time country gangsters break...
Author | Tim Lebbon |
ISBN | 1781168784 |
Coldbrook is a secret laboratory located deep in Appalachian Mountains. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were about to unleash.
With their breakthrough comes...