Hey Courtney and listers,Sorry for being so tardy with my response. As for the Straub, I had thought about scanning it, but hesitated for a couple reasons. For one, it is, or was a couple weeks ago anyway, skulking around the edge of the bestseller list, so it may end up receiving an in-house treatment from Bookshare. Also, I'm currently reading the Audible version of the book. Audio renditions of his titles, as released by the publisher, have often been abridged, which is a big no-no in my book, so this was a welcome surprise which I was more than happy to take advantage of. And yet another mitigating factor was my uncertainty about whether this title, published by Doubleday, if my memory hasn't failed me, is coming from one of our confirmed publishers. I remember there being a handful, but not which ones.
Fortunately, there are loads of good horror titles out there that need our attention.
Scott----- Original Message ----- From: "Courtney Stover" <liamskitten@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:20 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Currently Scanning
Scott, Since horror seems to be your forte, I was curious as to whether you might be planning to scan the new Peter Straub novel Dark Matter. It looks really interesting; like the one you mention here, it seems to be character driven, and traces the effects of an event in four people's teen years on the rest of their lives. Thanks, Courtney On 3/12/10, Scott Blanks <captaincynic3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Children of Chaos Greg F. Gifune Delirium Books 2009 In a torrential downpour, Phil, Jamie and Martin-three teenage boys-encounter a strange and enigmatic man covered in horrible scars who will change their lives, their destinies and the very fate of their souls forever. When their encounter leads to murder, they realize this eerie stranger may not have been a man at all, but something much more. Thirty years later the boys-now men-lead tormented lives filled with horrifying memories of the scarred man. Phil is a struggling writer, divorced, with a daughter and a mounting drinking problem. Jamie is adefrocked priest with depraved secrets and horrible addictions, and Martin,a madman who thinks himself a god, has vanished into a desolate desert region of Mexico and established a feared and violent blood cult. When Martin's dying mother hires Phil to find her son and bring him home, Philembarks on a perilous journey that will take him from the seedy streets of Tijuana, to a dangerous and allegedly haunted stretch of desert Mexican roadknown as The Corridor of Demons. At the end of the road, in an old and previously abandoned church, Martin and his followers wait in the Hell-on-Earth they've created deep in the desert. There will be only onechance for redemption, one chance for salvation, and one chance to stop therise of an antichrist's bloody quest for demonic power. From the void, came chaos. These are its children.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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