Pretty Little Dead Things
A Thomas Usher Novel
Will be published approx. on 4. November 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-85766-069-5 (ISBN)
Description
THOMAS USHER HAS A TERRIBLE GIFT.
Following a car crash in which his wife and daughter are killed, he can see the recently departed, and it's not usually a pretty sight. When he is called to investigate the violent death of the daughter of a prominent local gangster, Usher's world is torn apart once more. For the barriers between this world and the next are not as immutable as once he believed.
Who Is Thomas Usher?
His name is Thomas Usher. A normal man. An average guy. Until he is involved in a tragic accident and his wife and daughter are killed.
After that, things begin to change. Usher is no longer normal. Or average. Now he can see the dead, and the dead can see him. They seek him out to help them, to usher them to the next level so they might face whatever comes next. The lost. The lonely. The departed. They never speak to him; they only ever demand his attention.
The ghosts are drawn to Usher, and he is compelled to help them in the hope that he might once again see his family. But sometimes, just sometimes, it isn't enough and his efforts make things worse.
His name is Thomas Usher.
He is an usher for the dead.
It's who he is.
It's what he does.
File Under: Horror [ See The Dead | Skin Trade | Beyond Reality | A Sacrifice ]
Following a car crash in which his wife and daughter are killed, he can see the recently departed, and it's not usually a pretty sight. When he is called to investigate the violent death of the daughter of a prominent local gangster, Usher's world is torn apart once more. For the barriers between this world and the next are not as immutable as once he believed.
Who Is Thomas Usher?
His name is Thomas Usher. A normal man. An average guy. Until he is involved in a tragic accident and his wife and daughter are killed.
After that, things begin to change. Usher is no longer normal. Or average. Now he can see the dead, and the dead can see him. They seek him out to help them, to usher them to the next level so they might face whatever comes next. The lost. The lonely. The departed. They never speak to him; they only ever demand his attention.
The ghosts are drawn to Usher, and he is compelled to help them in the hope that he might once again see his family. But sometimes, just sometimes, it isn't enough and his efforts make things worse.
His name is Thomas Usher.
He is an usher for the dead.
It's who he is.
It's what he does.
File Under: Horror [ See The Dead | Skin Trade | Beyond Reality | A Sacrifice ]
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Watkins Media Limited
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85766-069-5 (9780857660695)
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Person
Gary McMahon is the multiple-award-nominated author of the novellas Rough Cut and All Your Gods Are Dead, the collections Dirty Prayers and How to Make Monsters and Pieces of Midnight, and the novels Rain Dogs and Hungry Hearts.He has been nominated for seven different British Fantasy Awards as both author and editor.