Let's All Kill Constance
Title | Let's All Kill Constance PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Bradbury |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2013-04-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062242342 |
On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge -- and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with Constance's name included among them. And so begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous, as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick Crumley to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood -- a graveyard of ghosts and secrets where each twisted road leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams ... and, all too often, to death.
Death Is a Lonely Business
Title | Death Is a Lonely Business PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Bradbury |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2013-04-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062242121 |
Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s. Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort--until strange things begin happening around him. Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds clumps of seaweed on his doorstep. But as the incidents escalate, his friends fall victim to a series of mysterious "accidents"--some of them fatal. Aided by Elmo Crumley, a savvy, street-smart detective, and a reclusive actress of yesteryear with an intense hunger for life, the wordsmith sets out to find the connection between the bizarre events, and in doing so, uncovers the truth about his own creative abilities.
A Graveyard for Lunatics
Title | A Graveyard for Lunatics PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Bradbury |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2013-04-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 006224213X |
Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery—and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.
Where Everything Ends
Title | Where Everything Ends PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Bradbury |
Publisher | Subterranean |
Pages | 778 |
Release | 2010-01-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781596062177 |
Let's All Kill Constance
Title | Let's All Kill Constance PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Bradbury |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781417648375 |
A young screenwriter and his crafty partner, detective Elmo Crumley, protect an aging movie queen from a deadly enemy who is determined to put an end to both her career and her life.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Title | We Have Always Lived in the Castle PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley Jackson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Castles |
ISBN |
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Title | We Have Always Lived in the Castle PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley Jackson |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 1967-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780822212263 |
THE STORY: The home of the Blackwoods near a Vermont village is a lonely, ominous abode, and Constance, the young mistress of the place, can't go out of the house without being insulted and stoned by the villagers. They have also composed a nasty s