Books by Bentley Little and Complete Book Reviews
Bentley Little, Author Signet Book $7.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-19258-5
At first it seems like a stroke of good luck when Bob Jones lands a job for which he is clearly unqualified. But his luck turns strange as Bob steadily fades from the attention of his coworkers. Within weeks, his arrival at work is marked by the...
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Bentley Little. Cemetery Dance, $25 trade hardcover (336p) ISBN 978-1-58767-616-1
Little (The Collection) wraps a fascinating supernatural mystery in a suffocating cocoon of horror. Daniel Martin is a typical Southern California kid in the 1980s, until his parents decide to purchase a vacation home in rural Arizona. Their new...
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Bentley Little. Cemetery Dance, $19.99 (140p) ISBN 978-1-58767-300-9
Readers who view women as objects of horror—possessed of heartless greed, foul excretions, faked intelligence, loathsome curves, and demonic souls—may experience some frisson while perusing this novella; others will merely be disgusted. In part one,
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Bentley Little, Author Signet Book $7.99 (386p) ISBN 978-0-451-22185-8
Those with weak stomachs will want to skip Little's latest shocker (after ""The Burning""), which dishes out blood, bowels, mutilation and rape with an unsettling knack for the truly repulsive. Parallel stories revolve around several bloody episodes
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Bentley Little, Author Signet Book $7.99 (373p) ISBN 978-0-451-20174-4
The overwhelming sense of doom with which Little (The Revelation) imbues his newest novel is so palpable it seems to rise from the book like mist. Flowing seamlessly between time and place (from the present-day hassles of HMOs to the once-uncharted...
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Bentley Little, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-312-03922-6
A tale of horror set in a small northern Arizona town, this first novel begins with the desecration of an Episcopal church and the disappearance of the priest and his family. Soon, other churches are defiled with obscenities written in goat's blood.
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Bentley Little, Author Signet Book $7.99 (376p) ISBN 978-0-451-20015-0
A pregnant woman gives birth to a cactus, a small church grows hair and bleeds, a man sprouts an umbilical cord and, one by one, residents of a tiny Southwest town die violently. These and other bizarre events begin occurring shortly after Gregory...
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Bentley Little, Author Signet Book $7.99 (360p) ISBN 978-0-451-19224-0
As children, twins Shelley and Kip Davies were fascinated with Lockley Arms, the majestic Victorian inn across the street from their house in the sleepy, idyllic town of Green Hollow. Late one winter night, the siblings trespass there, and Kip is...
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Bentley Little, Author . Signet $6.99 (438p) ISBN 978-0-451-20412-7
With this haunting tale, Little (The Town) proves that he hasn't lost his terrifying touch. Barry and Maureen Welch are thrilled to exchange their chaotic California lifestyle for the idyllic confines of Bonita Vista, a ritzy gated community in
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Bentley Little, Author . Signet $7.99 (391p) ISBN 978-0-451-22467-5
School principal Jody Hawkes, known for being easygoing, decides to turn John Tyler High into a charter school without notifying any of her staff. At first, as Jody promises additional freedom and autonomy, most faculty embrace the changes—but
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Bentley Little, Author . Signet $7.99 (391p) ISBN 978-0-451-21914-5
In the new book by Bram Stoker Award–winner Little (Dispatch
), strangers across the U.S. are each pursued by different supernatural forces as they fall into the path of a ghost train rumbling into the present day from a dark chapter in...
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Bentley Little, Author . Signet $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-21280-1
Stoker-winner Little possesses the uncanny ability to take everyday situations and turn them into nightmares, and this book, his most frightening since The Association
(2001), showcases this talent. As the novel opens, Lowell Thurman, his wife and...
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Bentley Little, Author . Signet $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-20954-2
Similar in style and structure to Little's previous books (The Association, etc.), this chilling tale revolves around a handful of tightly knit characters living in Tucson, Ariz.—including recently divorced Hunt Jackson, his new wife, his
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Bentley Little, Author . Signet $6.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-20687-9
Little's first full-length novel since last year's The Association
is clogged with faceless characters and smothered by a preposterous story line involving ancient Indian burial grounds and frizzy-haired mummies. While many of Little's...
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Bentley Little, Author . Signet $6.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-451-20609-1
Little (The Association) displays his darker side in the 32 mostly memorable stories that comprise this collection of unpublished and previously published stories. Drawing from a bizarre cauldron of influences (cited in brief introductions to each...
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Bentley Little. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59606-478-2
This collection of 10 nightmarish short stories by Stoker winner Little (The Haunted) is enhanced by the author’s brief contextual introductions and the accompanying pen-and-ink illustrations by Hugo-winning artist Bob Eggleton, which complement the
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Bentley Little, Author, Douglas Clegg, Joint Author, Christopher Golden, Joint Author . Leisure $25 (326p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5098-4
A generously unrestricted theme—events that take place in a single terrifying night—and talented contributors build high expectations for this quartet of brand new horror novellas, most of which, alas, disappoint in their failure to...
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