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FEAR HAUNTS THE TURRET ROOM . . .
It is hard to say just what sort of noise it was.
I swung the lamp round and scanned the darkened chamber. I saw no one, of course, and nothing. It was then that my ears caught hold of it - a faint, energetic whispering, as of a voice struggling to make itself heard.
My scalp tingled with a sudden sense of impending danger.
"Who is it?" I demanded. "Who is there?"
All in an instant I spied a glimmer of movement, and was struck cold to see a strange, ghostly shape swimming in the air before me. The words it was whispering were but two, louder now, and repeated several times over in a desperate, pleading tone -
"Help me!"
My name is Eugene Stanley, and I had come up to Salthead and its fabled University to assist my uncle, Professor Christopher Greenshields, in the preparation of his latest tome. Little hint had I of the mystery and danger that awaited me there . . .
A N C H O R W I C K
A W E S T E R N L I G H T S B O O K
by Jeffrey E. Barlough
A Gresham & Doyle Trade Paperback
ISBN 978-0-9787634-1-1
387 pages / $14.95 U.S.
Publication: October 31, 2008
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"A pre-eminent inventor of wonderfully weird fiction . . . alternate history, science fantasy, gothic horror, every standard label except great writing comes up short."
-- The Agony Column
"Superb . . . the engaging plot and the artful writing elevate Barlough's work far above most other contemporary genre fiction." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Utterly over the top . . . a rollicking, page-turning read."
-- Washington Post Book World
"Imperturbably entertaining."
-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Unmistakably a writer to watch."
-- Barnesandnoble.com
Featured image: Detail from Two Men Contemplating the Moon (oil on canvas), by Caspar David Friedrich (Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden / Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden / Bridgeman Art Library)
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