Bøker av Russell James

Who can save the children from the Woodsman? Thirty years ago, six high school friends banded together to confront the Woodsman, a murderous specter whose prey was children. None of the friends will ever forget the horror of those weeks...or blood chilling image of the Woodsman. Now the six have returned to town for a long overdue reunion. Except the Woodsman hasn't finished with them yet. As a new nightmare unfolds, ripping open old scars and inflicting fresh terror, what will each of them have to sacrifice this time to keep the children safe and the Woodsman at bay?

Russell James delivers a new collection of horror and suspense short stories in Dust and Bones. This collection has all these thrillers set in the past. Some of the tales include: In the frontier West, a prostitute meets a rich client, and sees her ticket to a life of leisure. What unfolds for her is something completely different.A World War I pilot flies into a strange cloud, and exits into World War II.Signing aboard a sailing ship plying the slave trade in the 1800s seems like a great adventure for one young man, but horrors beyond imagination await him and the entire crew.During the Civil War, Union Army deserters arrive to ransack a plantation mansion. The doctor they encounter within makes them wish they had never left camp.These and ten more shadowy stories from the past wait within the covers of Dust and Bones

A compendious illustrated guide to those industrious but often overlooked women writers of the Victorian era: the famous, the forgotten and the forlorn. More than 1,500 women authors, along with over 400 pseudonyms, 400 quotes and extracts, and a further 40 subject entries and essays.Not just the familiar names - though they're all there - but literally hundreds of minor and middle-ranking authors, along with the magazines they were serialized in, the trends, the publishers, and the disadvantages and problems women writers faced in what was assumed to be a man's world.You'll find entries on The Bigamy Novel, Children's Literature, Domestic Fiction, Feminism First Faltering Footsteps, Ghost Stories, Governess Stories, Literary Style, Living in a Man's World, Morality and Religion, The New Woman, Romance, Sensation Novels, Silly and Silver Fork Novels, Social Conditions and Reform, The Three-Decker novel, Tracts and Tract Societies, Travellers and Explorers, 'Womanly Fiction', 'Woman's Place' - and more. This is a popular encyclopaedia, not an academic text. It's a book to read and enjoy, to dip into and consult for reference, and it's very readable. Not only is it written in easy-to-read prose but (almost uniquely) it is packed with extracts from Victorian women's writing - paragraphs, short scenes, verses - to bring these authors back to life.

It seems like the perfect trip when paleontologist Grant Coleman joins a geology professor and an anthropologist to explore an unmapped canyon far out in the Utah desert. The sponsor's team leader promises Grant he can take home all the fossils he finds. On the first day at camp, an explosion strands the entire team hundreds of feet down on the canyon floor. It is soon clear that the mining company sponsor has more nefarious plans than the benign research they promised. The going is about to get tough for the three professors. Then the situation gets worse. These humans aren't the only ones in this canyon. Supposedly extinct dinosaur species still roam the canyon's floor, and they aren't about to let humans become the new apex predator. Can Grant's dinosaur expertise and the other professors' insights combine to save them from these monsters? If not, they are doomed, because there's no rescue coming to Desolation Canyon.

Russell James delivers a collection of thirteen horrific short stories.A mysterious pinball machine arrives at the mansion of an aging porn king. He finds that this gift has itself a gift to give. Accepting both may be his last mistake.In rural Alabama, Crystal Caverns, an old roadside attraction, gives new meaning to being billed as a family experience.A retired Special Forces soldier hunts for missing boys in Central America and uncovers an awful truth about a famous local farm.Timmy Wayne, a magnet for good fortune, is living large on a stream of Las Vegas winnings, but it looks like his luck has finally run out.One couple tests the limits of what they'll do to care for their pet dog.A serial killer stalking truck stops across the country picks the wrong victim.These and seven other tales document Russell's descent Deeper into Darkness

The human race is dying. In the near future, genetic mutation causes everyone born after a certain date to mature into psychopaths. Massacres plague the nation. For the safety of all, anyone born after Red Line Day is interned, and giving birth is illegal. Kyle and Addie are part of Generation Omega, the last people born before Red Line Day and the final senior class that will ever graduate. Their destiny will be to bury their elders and turn out the lights for all mankind. When Addie gets pregnant, the law is clear. She cannot carry a psychopath to term. She and Kyle decide to run. A mythical town called Ashrama is said to exist where people live naturally, free of the disorder that created the Psychopocalypse. They set out to find it. Guided by the shadowy members of the Invisible Skyway, and assisted by their principal and a dying pharmacist from town, they begin a cross-country journey. But much stands in their way. Escaped young psychs and bands of criminals ravage the no man's land between cities. Government agents hunt anyone planning on breaking the rules of reproduction. And those they must trust often become betrayers when it serves their self-interest. GENERATION OMEGA combines the epic post-apocalyptic scope of THE STAND with the pace of a Lee Child thriller. The storyline taps into the common fears of an unready upcoming generation and the effects of toxins we are releasing into the world.

Two realities. One hope. What if you lived in two worlds, and could die in either? Pete Holm can. He is a dreamwalker, able to travel to the realm of dreams, including the devastated world of Twin Moon City, where an evil voodoo spirit holds living souls in terror with his army of the walking dead. In the waking world, drug lord Jean St. Croix knows only the power of the dreamwalker can stop him, so St. Croix vows Pete must die. Pete is the only hope to rescue the lost souls in Twin Moon City...unless St. Croix kills him first. Can anyone survive when two realities collide?

In this magic shop the magic is real. And the trick is on you.Citrus Glade is a dying town that needs new businesses, but the one that just opened is doing much more harm than good. Stranger Lyle Miller's magic shop seems to only stock what its select customers desire. When four outcast boys buy common party tricks, only Lyle knows what those tricks can really do. As subtle changes occur around town, a few residents realize that something is amiss...and getting worse. But it may already be too late. Lyle's black magic has empowered more townspeople to help him execute his Grand Adventure, a plan that will reduce the town, and half the state, to rubble.

Joey Oates is back at Stone Harbor to complete the ritual a coven left unfinished three hundred years ago. Former lovers Scott Tackett and Allie Layton are about to reconnect after years apart, until they discover the evil growing in town. Only they can stop Oates's awful plan.

During withdrawal from anti-anxiety medications, Brian is plagued by dreams of women strangled and then left with a playing card tucked in the corpse. But then a nightmare's victim shows up on the news, dead. Brian fears he may be the unwitting killer. Detective Weissbard thinks the same thing, and starts to build a case to get Brian behind bars. But there's more to these slayings. Brian finds that his family tree has yielded an unknown brother, Tyler, with a penchant for murder. Tyler is willing to frame Brian for the crimes, unless Brian wants to join Team Playing Card Killer. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Widely regarded in the golfing world as arrogant and abrasive, David Graham is deeply respected by a few close friends for his unswerving loyalty and honesty. A loner, yet devoted family man, he has risen from a difficult background of ridicule and failure to the highest levels of acclaim in professional golf. The only Australian to win two US majors, this book tells the story of a troubled figure who, like Hamlet, faced the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

When two million pounds in used notes goes missing, everyone knows that Scott Heywood has taken it. What no-one knows is where he has gone - but they are determined to find out. This makes life unpleasant for his brother Jet, a fairground boxer, whose daughter becomes the pursuers' target.