Eric Torch was a detective for the New York City police department, working homicide. Some said that he was the best when it came down to finding killers and bringing them in, or so everyone thought. Eric's whole life had been around murder and death. He had the best training from his past. There were many that hated him or loved him, not that he really cared. They say one moment can change your whole life and Eric was living proof of that.
Ninety-five years ago the enormous interplanetary space vehicle, the Pacifica, with a numerous crew, suddenly and inexplicably disappeared as it neared the planet Pluto. None of the probes directed towards the planet after the disaster found any evidence that the vessel and its crew had ever existed. Now, a century later, the wreck of the huge ship has been sighted, lying shrouded in the hazy-black starlight on the Plutonian surface. A shuttle has been fitted for the dangerous journey to the seventh planet, and with three crewmembers aboard, has made the first attempt to reach Pluto since the loss of the Pacifica. As the shuttle approaches the planet, it also 'suddenly and inexplicably' disappears and is lost. Although the crew of three is believed to have perished, they have not, and will carry on with their mission: to determine how the Pacifica met its fate. The truth, however, may be found only beyond reason, or even beyond imagination, and the three astronauts may wish that they never sought answer to this great mystery.
These Angel Food books, frosted with Christ-like charm, simplicity, and attractive truths, are here served for the additional delight of the many who have enjoyed other Father Brennan books. Angle Food for Boys & Girls Volume I includes: "The Devil at the Door", "Marty's First Mass", "The Girl in the Shabby Dress", "The Boy Who Made God Smile", etc... Each volume also has a topical index relating various subjects in the stories to chapters in the Baltimore Catechism (No. 2).
Scared of Fear is when someone has fear of being scared of the uncertain. When you read these and poems, you will understand the meaning "scared of fear." The stories and poems that you are about to read, are unique in there own ways. When you read the endings, use your imagination. These stories are mysterious in that sense of fiction or it seems to appear in that way, but actually, it could be reality. You will have to decide. Enjoy the creation of horror and terror in the past, present, and future of the unknown reality.
The year is 2030. Science has developed MEMORMAX a drug that greatly enhances memory function. Those who have taken MEMORMAX are quicker and smarter and have taken cotnrol society. Those who do not are considered pariahs. They have been hounded like animals and their numbers are diminishing disastrously. Ford Hughson is one of these and is struggling for survival against an enemy much smarter than he.
"In this searching biography of the writer’s imagination, Mary Gaitskill excavates her own novels, revealing their origins and obsessions, the personal and societal pressures that formed them, and the life story hidden between their pages. Using the techniques of collage, The Devil's Treasure splices fiction together with commentary and personal history, and with the fairy tale that gives the book its title, about a little girl who ventures into Hell through a suburban trapdoor." -- Publisher's website.