Joyland (Glen Orbik Cover)
Who Dares Enter The Funhouse Of Fear?
When this novel is published in June 2013, there will also be a cover by Robert McGinnis.
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Who Dares Enter The Funhouse Of Fear?
When this novel is published in June 2013, there will also be a cover by Robert McGinnis.
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She Was Born Bad
What did a gorgeous Hollywood starlet have to do with the disappearance of a Nobel Prize winner’s last manuscript?
IT’S THE STORY of a big-game hunter, fisherman, fighter, visitor to Cuba, drunk, and Nobel Prize-winning author, recently deceased of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, whose final unpublished manuscript could fetch a mint…
IT’S THE STORY of a short, balding man with a high-pitched voice and a vicious wit, whose cocktail parties are the talk of the town, especially when a beautiful woman dies at one of them…
IT’S THE STORY of Hollywood’s sexiest starlet, who manages to conceal things even when she’s wearing nothing but a towel… …and it’s the story of Dick Sherman, intrepid New York publisher, on the trail of the literary find of the century—and the killer who will stop at nothing to keep it from being found.
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The Crime Was Over In A Minute— The Consquences Lasted A Lifetime
Hospitalized after a liaison with another man’s wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul’s facing steep odds—and a bleak fate if he fails…
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
LITTLE GIRL…FOUND.
Three years ago, detective John Blake solved a mystery that changed his life forever—and left a woman he loved dead. Now Blake is back, to investigate the apparent suicide of Dorothy Louise Burke, a beautiful college student with a double life. The secrets Blake uncovers could blow the lid off New York City’s sex trade…if they don’t kill him first.
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They all answered to…the BODYMASTER!
Years ago, a P.I. out of Chicago brought justice to a dirty town. Now he’s going to pay.
A sawed-off shotgun blast to the face leaves one man dead–and reveals a secret that has pursued another across an ocean and set the world’s most ruthless criminal on his trail. The man needs the help of a great detective…but could even Sherlock Holmes save him now?
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Their vacation in paradise became a descent into hell.
Their marriage on the rocks, James and Cora Bevan flew to Jamaica for a last chance at patching things up. But in the slums of Kingston James found himself fighting for his life—while Cora found her own path to destruction, in the arms of another man.
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This is the final cover Glen Orbik worked on before he died in 2015
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This is a pulp-cover-style painting with pulp covers in it! Meta-Pulp!
Would She Learn The Dead Man’s Secret?
Who was the dead man, and what was he doing so far from home?
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There’s no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues, and it’s more than a year before the man is identified. And that’s just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still…?
By Stephen King. This book is the basis for the SyFy original show Haven.
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Beyond The Lights, There Is Only Darkness
This is the extremely limited hardback edition. The paperback cover by Glen Orbik is here.
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Murder Stalks The French Riviera
How Far Would He Go? And How Far Did I Want Him To?
You Can Rid Yourself Of The Wolf At Your Door, But What Do You Do When The Wolf Is In Your Bed…?
Two identical twin sisters—one a sexually repressed defense attorney, the other a former libertine now living a respectable life in suburbia—are about to have their darkest secrets revealed, to the men in their lives and to themselves.
As one sister prepares for the toughest trial of her career and the other faces a stalker who knows details of her life that even her husband doesn’t, both find themselves pushed to the edge, and confronted by discoveries about their husbands that shock and disturb them.
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If there was an awesome tagline, this would be the best retro sci-fi neo-noir robot detective cover ever. Submit one in the comments!
Comic Books Are Corrupting America’s Youth!
Or so the esteemed Dr. Werner Frederick would have people believe—people like the Congressmen holding hearings on banning violent crime and horror “funny books.” And when the crusade provokes a most un-funny murder, Jack Starr—comics syndicate troubleshooter—has no shortage of suspects. Was it the knife-wielding juvenile delinquent or the naked seductress? Perhaps a frustrated publisher or an outraged cartoonist. Or was it a comic book reader…?
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If You Cross Them, They Will Kill You
In Rusty Santoro’s neighborhood, the kids carry knives, chains, bricks. Broken glass. And when they fight, they fight dirty, leaving the streets littered with the bodies of the injured and the dead. Rusty wants out—but you can’t just walk away from a New York street gang. And his decision may leave his family to pay a terrible price.
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