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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR— How can my patient look at his wife, who could serve as a painter's model for a sultry odalisque, and see a plain, "presentable girl"? His distorted dream-vision of her as a shameless wanton fits, in caricature, her air and appearance better than his waking one. Though I am sure it is done innocently and unconsciously, she radiates a sensuality that is all but suffocating. Even her voice captivates. It is low in pitch, dark in timbre, and seems to inhabit the ear like the murmurings of some exotic musical instrument. One does not care what she may say, if only she will speak. But now I believe she begins to lose hope. When she is standing near me I can see in her eyes a look of agitation, almost desperation. How I wish there were something I might do to bring comfort to this unhappy lady! The novelette "Sahib" was originally published in an anthology of Little Deaths, 24 Tales of Horror and Sex and was also included in the later German (FIEBER—24 dunkle Geschicten) and French (LA PETITE MORT—Anthologie érotique de littérature fantastique) editions. | |
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In the Shadow of Midnight: Daedalus, A tale of Savannah | ||
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by Albert Davenport |
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On September 19, 2005, the heat waves danced off the teeming, blackened windows of a small wooden house in the city’s Trustee’s Garden section. Inside lay the bodies of Bob and Tina Stoddard, decaying in the Savannah swelter. The Stoddards' deaths ended a tragic string of events begun more than two decades earlier by one careless decision. Their fall from grace was as precipitous as Icarus' plummet to the sea. They had partied with their Monterey Square neighbor, Jim Williams, before he faced the legal ordeal outlined in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In the shadow of those more famous events, their lives crumbled. This is their story.
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Meals on Wheels | ||
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by J. Calvin Pierce |
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What are a doddering old man and a pretty young girl doing in a dark, lonely rented house, and what secrets might be hidden there? The deputy aims to find out. | |
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The Door to Ambermere (First in the Ambermere Trilogy) | ||||
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The Sorceress of Ambermere (Second in the Ambermere Trilogy) | ||
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The Wizard of Ambermere (Third in the Ambermere Trilogy) | ||
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by J. Calvin Pierce |
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Trolls? She had trolls? Was she going to be responsible for an infestation of demons? Had her apartment become a vestibule of Hell? Marcia stared at the wall behind her guest. Trolls! Or gnomes—whatever. She had never even had roaches. She looked furtively from side to side, moving only her eyes. There were no little creatures in sight. No pixies; no fairies with fluttering wings. Everything was, for the moment, perfectly normal. Just her and one not very large demon, eating doughnuts. | |
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05/08/2012 06:22 AM Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are and many others, has left us and will be missed by generations of children, some not yet born. Don't miss the ultimate interview with Stephen Colbert.  04/30/2012 11:25 AM Valhalla Press e-publishes the Ambermere Series Valhalla Press proudly announces the publication of J. Calvin Pierce’s Ambermere series. Pierce penned the series twenty years ago when it met with critical acclaim and was translated into several languages including Russian. The books, The Door to Ambermere, the Sorceress of Ambermere, and The Wizard of Ambermere went on to become cult classics. Valhalla Press is celebrating the 20thAnniversary of the Ambermere release with the electronic re-release of this classic series. Readers may enjoy the books in the e-book format of their choice. The books are currently available for the Kindle, Nook or on Smashwords. Readers may also download the Kindle App to allow their PC or Mac to read the Kindle version. Shortly, the books will be released in Apple ibooks and on Kobo. In The Door to Ambermere, Daniel believes the only really pressing issue in his life is a little misunderstanding with a mobster. That’s because, lacking any awareness of the kingdom of Ambermere, possibly because it is located in an alternative world, he has no way of anticipating what impact the machinations of a tippling magician could possibly have on his life. He’s about to find out. In The Sorceress of Ambermere, Marcia is clinging to the increasingly dreamlike memories of the previous summer. Had she really had those adventures, really braved those perils? The scar on her cheekbone and the ring on her finger said yes. But then, where is Hannah the witch? Where is the young woman with the impossible aura and wild, frightening eyes? Marcia is waiting, but not patiently… The Wizard of Ambermere finds Marcia in her apartment. She has now participated in so many strange events, has acquired a history of such a surrealistic complexion, that the most outlandish adventures have come to seem perfectly normal. Really, what could surprise her now? Meanwhile, in Ambermere things are not quite as they should be. Will Asbrak the Fat have to call on Rogan the Obscure again? In honor of the 20th Anniversary, Valhalla Press is also e-publishing two shorter works by Mr. Pierce: Meals on Wheels, a short story and Sahib, a novelette. Our hope is to give Mr. Piece’s fans a fresh look at his work and introduce these enduring classics to a new generation.  04/03/2012 10:07 AM The world was outraged when the Egyptian military conducted so-called virginity checks on female protesters during the Egyptian Revolution and even more so when the doctors who conducted them were found not guilty last month in an Egyptian court.  03/29/2012 05:17 PM Behind "In the Shadow of Midnight" On a steamy September Savannah day in 2005, my wife and I, with our wheezing bichon frise, escaped the 90-degree heat into our rented condo on East Broad Street in the Trustee's Garden section of town. We were grateful for the Savannah-capacity air conditioning in our vacation bungalow as we collapsed on our bed to take an afternoon nap. (Southerners would be appalled at the wimpy excuses we have for air conditioners in Pennsylvania.) A few hours later, I awoke and looked out the front window to see four police cruisers, an ambulance and a hearse at the building across the street. We watched the paramedics roll out two bodies and immediately assumed murder/suicide.  03/16/2012 06:39 AM New narrative non-fiction available Valhalla Press has just published In the Shadow of Midnight: Daedalus, A Tale of Savannah by Albert Davenport. To preview the narrative nonfiction work, click here:  |