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The Dune
Stephen King
‘Being able to read obituaries in advance gives a man an extraordinary sense of power.’
A Lovely and Terrible Thing
Chris Womersley
‘For a moment I could not speak. I looked off into the bleak distance, then at this man, and there was something about the sad shake of his head and the way his hair flapped about on his scalp that filled me with unreasonable warmth.’
Vampire
Robert Coover
‘His wife comes in, baring, with a wink, her incisors, and offers him a Bloody Mary.’
Out of the Tombs
Madison Smartt Bell
‘He had always been curious as to what lay behind the gate: a metal portcullis, of an almost medieval aspect, opposite the corner of Columbus Park.’
Auto-Suggestion
Toby Litt
‘I began to think, for no particular reason, about what the exact series of events would be were I to die at that moment – before, even, my coffee went cold.’
Banyan
Robert Olen Butler
‘I wake and it’s dark and a woman is beside me, naked and small, and she is waking too and the room is still heavy with the incense she burned for her dead.’
Gothic Night
Mansoura Ez Eldin
‘He wrote: they called it the city of eternal sun. Its sun set only after the last inhabitant slept, and rose before the first got up. They were all deprived of the night. They were not even aware of its existence.’
An Occupation
Adam Stumacher
‘All those years of manipulating the tuning crank have given him the patience to settle in for these more involved jobs, and patience is perhaps the most important quality in a human shield.’
The Trouble with the Horses
Patrick deWitt
‘We did not believe in naming horses but they were given to us as partial payment for the last job with the names intact, so that was that.’
