And maybe it was just the easy way she laid it out. Justin told her not to apologize, that she was probably more on target about him than he’d managed to be about himself in quite some time. I don’t have any right to try and figure you out like that.” And that whole upwardly mobile track that burns people out and eats ulcers into them before they’re thirty.” A long pause. And whether you realize it or not, you sound relieved to be out of the agency game. “I hardly know you, but it seems like you’ve spent a lot of time trying to shoehorn yourself into places that don’t really fit you, deep inside. “There you go, then.” April resumed her vigil over the water. “I don’t even know what my true self is anymore.”

Almost as if they were discussing someone else. He smiled, relishing the ease of the conversation. Lot price for 16 titles.Īll books are first printings of first editions or first American editions unless otherwise noted.“After everything started falling apart, my ex-wife told me I could drink all I wanted but I was never going to be able to forget.” This lot represents something under half the titles produced in the lifetime of the imprint. The imprint eventually published over 40 titles before folding. Stephen King provided an unsolicited blurb for the entire series, the first time he had blurbed an entire series, and the first time he had asked to be allowed to provide a blurb, rather than being asked for one. The Dell/Abyss imprint was created to elevate the horror genre to be 'cutting edge psychological horror' and 'the best, most innovative dark fiction available,' according to the publisher's mission statement. All but Making Love are fine in wrappers ( Making Love has one tiny corner crease and is very near fine).

The Children's Hour has the stamp of another author on the title page. All but Darker Saints and Heart Beast are first printings (they are second printings, but have review material laid in). All but Anthony Shriek and Making Love have review material laid in. As follows:1991 - Brian Hodge, Nightlife Kelley Wilde, Mastery 1992 - Lisa Tuttle, Lost Futures Dennis Etchison, editor, Metahorror Mark Morris, Stitch Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Anthony Shriek 1993 - Kelley Wilde, Angel Kiss Gail Petersen, The Making of a Monster Melanie Tem and Nancy Holder, Making Love Tanith Lee, Heart Beast 1995 - Melanie Tem, Desmodus Douglas Clegg, The Children's Hour 1996 - Kristine Kathryn Rusch, The Devil's Churn Nancy Holder and Melanie Tem, Witch-Light Ellen Datlow, editor, Twists of the Tale. Sixteen paperback titles in Dell's Abyss Horror paperback line: fourteen are first printings fourteen are review copies all but one are fine.

Nightlife by Brian Hodge