A family flees the crime-ridden city—and finds something worse—in "a brilliantly imagined horror story" by the New York Times–bestselling author ( The Boston Globe).After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine decides to get back to the land. When he and his wife search New England for the perfect nineteenth-century home, they find no township more charming, no countryside more idyllic than the farming vil...

Though the greats of Hollywood may fade, their secrets live on foreverFedora is dead, and movies will never be the same. A star since the early days of Hollywood, she survived the business for an unprecedented four decades before retiring to Crete. As the years wore on and her costars turned wrinkled and worn, Fedora's perfect features never faded. Now that she has finally passed, the secret to her longevity will be told—a shocking revelation that will raise her to ...

**From horror to Hollywood, three haunting novels from the New York Times–bestselling author of Crowned Heads and The Other.Harvest Home: After escaping New York City for the idyllic New England village of Cornwall Coombe, the Constantine family wins the friendship of the town matriarch, the mysterious Widow Fortune, who invites them to join the ancient festival of Harvest Home. But something far more sinister than the annual harvest is ...

"A slick Manhattan spin on the story of the sorcerer's apprentice" from the New York Times–bestselling author of the horror classic The Other ( Chicago Tribune).Though he bills himself as the Greatest Magician in the World, Michael Hawke is painfully aware that he's nothing more than a sidewalk. He plies his trade outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, entrancing passing crowds with feats of conjuring and sleight of hand. One afternoon, ...

**"A spellbinder with a twisted ending . . . You can't put it down"—from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Other ( Des Moines Register ).In Pequot Landing, there are two sights to see: the largest elm in America, which dominates the stately old village green, and the house of Lady Harleigh. When the Great War ended, she was the most beautiful bride in the village, and though she was widowed soon after,...

The interlocking lives of five Hollywood leading ladies spawn "tragedies, dark doings, jealousies, murder, passion on the grand scale" ( Chicago Tribune).Charlie Caine has been to too many Hollywood funerals. The studio system is long gone, and its stars—some forgotten, some preserved for display on a late-night show—are beginning to pass on, as well. Only a few turn out for the final performance of Babe Austrian, a peroxide-blond beauty whose red-hot talk...

Holland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud. The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the...

Thomas Tryon, 1634 – 1703, was an English merchant, author of popular self-help books, and early advocate of vegetarianism. Of Cleanness in Meats and Drinks. Of the Excellency of Good Airs, and of the contrary. Of the Benefits of Clean Sweet Beds, and of the Inconveniences of Feather-Beds. What Matter it is that does occasion the Generation of that pernicious Vermin called Bugs, that so many Hundreds in this City, and other great Towns, are infested with; more especially in Holland, Italy,...

A Treatise of Cleanness in Meats and Drinks, of the Preparation of Food, The Excellency of Good Airs, and the Benefits of Clean Sweet Beds is a fascinating and comprehensive work that delves into the essential aspects of health and hygiene in daily life, as understood in the early modern period. This treatise offers readers a detailed exploration of the importance of cleanliness in the selection, preparation, and consumption of food and drink, emphasizing the direct impact of these practic...

This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. The essays within this volume explore the fault lines of the racial formation concept, identify the power relations to which it inheres, and resolve the ethical coordinates for alternative ways of conceiving of racism and its correlations with sexism, homophobia, heteronormativity, gender politics, empire, economic exploitation, and other valences of bodily construction, performance, and control in the twenty-first century. Coll...