About the Book
A very special jukebox in the abandoned saloon of a dusty deserted town plays much more than mere tunes for two weary wanderers...
A travelling carnival in a post-apocalyptic world comes across the Earth's very last vampire...
A chair fashioned out of the wood from the original cross provides a comfort of sorts down the ages...
A lonely girl dreams of freedom, whatever the cost...
A one-time orphan embarks on a bizarre bus-journey with his newfound parents...
Two old men tamper with the dark arts and open a gateway that threatens the destruction of the world...
A grieving widower goes to great lengths to bring his wife back from the dead – only to find that she's brought someone else with her...
And a man uses a roll of magical tape to halt time and save his wife's life, unaware that there are things in this stopped-clock dimension that take a dim view of visitors...
Twelve more stories from the fertile mind of Peter Crowther, award-winning author of The Longest Single Note, Songs of Leaving, Lonesome Roads and the Forever Twilight SF/horror sequence.
Contents:
- Introduction by Jack Dann
- Stand-by
- We're All Bozos On This Bus
- Days of the Wheel
- Even Beggars Would Ride (with James Lovegrove)
- The Last Vampire
- Bedfordshire
- Conundrums To Guess
- Three Plays A Quarter
- Sitting Pretty (with Simon Conway)
- The Main Event
- Dark Times
- The Space Between The Lines
- Story Notes
