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ISBN 1-870338-55-3 (UK special edition hbk),,, 1-870338-50-2 (UK trade edition hbk)
novel, horror, Great Depression, california
First edition limited to 1010 copies. 300 numbered copies include postscripts by Charles de Lint and Ramsey Campbell, are specially bound, slipcased and signed by all the contributors. 10 copies are leather-bound, lettered and for presentation purposes only. Cover art and frontispiece by Tim Ferret.
"Cooper is having trouble telling the living and the dead apart -- and he doesn't have much time to figure out the difference. Bad luck has brought him to California during the Great Depression, a landscape green and gold and inviting on the surface, but with darkness at its core. Bad luck has entwined his fate with that of Vandervelde, a citrus grower with a safe full of money and a taste for games that end in bloodshed, and Fay, a girl who believes she can talk to the dead.
"Before Cooper's bad luck is over, the line between the living and the dead will have been erased and he'll find out what life is really like...in the land of the dead." [jacket blurb, UK hbk, 1989]
"Jeter's is one of the most impressive bodies of work in my field today. Sometimes reminiscent of noir fiction but far darker, oppressively intense and hallucinatorily vivid, deeply felt and unflinchingly honest, this book is what I believe contemporary horror fiction should be." --Ramsey Campbell.
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