A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's 73 recently discovered notebooks, including illustrations, deleted extracts, and two unpublished Poirot stories. When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide in more than 100 countries, she had achieved the impossible - more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one a bestseller. So prolific was Agatha Christie's output - 66 crime novels, 20 plays, 6 romance books under a pseudonym and over 150 short stories - it was often claimed that she had a photographic memory. Was this true? Or did she resort over those 55 years to more mundane methods of working out her ingenious crimes? Following the death of Agatha's daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable secret was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie's private notebooks, 73 handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in her unmistakable handwriting, are revelations about her famous books that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story. What is the 'deleted scene' in her first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles? How did the infamous twist in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, really come about? Which very famous Poirot novel started life as an adventure for Miss Marple? Which books were designed to have completely different endings, and what were they? Full of details she was too modest to reveal in her own Autobiography, this remarkable new book includes a wealth of extracts and pages reproduced directly from the notebooks and her letters, plus for the first time two newly discovered complete Hercule Poirot short stories never before published.

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The day after tomorrow: Nuclear fallout. Mutations. Deadly pandemics. Corpse wagons. Body pits. Empty cities. The human race trembling on the edge of extinction. Only the desperate survive. One of them is Rick Nash. But there is a price for survival: communion with a ravenous evil born from the furnace of radioactive waste. It demands sacrifice. Only it can keep Nash one step ahead of the nightmare that stalks him-a sentient, seething plague-entity that stalks its chosen prey: the last of the human race. To accept it is a living death. To defy it, a hell beyond imagining

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When the crew of a lost freighter finds themselves trapped in a gruesome dimension—of sea monsters, ghost ships, and the undead—it is up to them to locate the U.S.S. Lancet and convince a nearly insane physicist to help them return home. 

About the Author

Tim Curran is a horror, crime, and western writer whose work has appeared in nearly 100 magazines and anthologies. He lives in Escanaba, Michigan.

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Cannibalism. Murder. Rape. Absolute brutality. When civilizations ends...when the human race begins to revert to ancient, predatory savagery...when the world descends into a bloodthirsty hell...there is only survival. But for one man and one woman, survival means becoming something less than human. Something from the primeval dawn of the race. "Shocking and brutal, The Devil Next Door will hit you like a baseball bat to the face. Curran seems to have it in for the world ... and he's ending it as horrifyingly as he can." - Tim Lebbon, author of Bar None "The Devil Next Door is dynamite! Visceral, violent, and disturbing!." Brian Keene, author of Castaways and Dark Hollow

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Shaddock Valley. A maximum security prison that houses the worst of the worst: drug gangs, psychopaths, rapists, gangters, and outlaw bikers. In a place like that, a skinny little kid like Danny Palmquist doesn't stand a chance. It doesn't take long before the hardtimers move in on him.

Then they begin to die horribly.

In locked cells.

When the lights go out at Shaddock Valley, the nightmare begins. When Danny Palmquist goes to sleep, something else wakes up.

Something primeval.

Something bloodthirsty.

And if you mess with Danny Palmquist, it will find you. And in the darkness, nothing can save you.

Jimmy Hayes had a bad feeling the moment he arrived at Kharkhov Station at the South Pole, and his feeling was confirmed when mummies were discovered in the mountains. When the ruins of a pre-human civilization are discovered, the real trouble at Kharkhov Station begins...

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The rain is falling and the dead are rising. It began at an ultra-secret government laboratory. Experiments in limb regeneration-an unspeakable union of Medieval alchemy and cutting edge genetics result in the very germ of horror itself: a gene trigger that will reanimate dead tissue...any dead tissue. Now it's loose. It's gone viral. It's in the rain. And the rain has not stopped falling for weeks. As the country floods and corpses float in the streets, as cities are submerged, the evil dead are rising. And they are hungry. Limited Edition 666 page Hardback Strictly limited to 500 copies. Release Date: Halloween

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"Skin Medicine" contains innumerable well-drawn characters - good and bad, all drawn with the Curran flair. What I like most about the work is that it's well researched and doesn't glamour history with a patriotic brush. Curran shows the west without prejudice - good and bad alike - leaving us wondering about the nature of our own humanity. At times I found the writing unrelenting, but at other times it soars and easily rivals the work of Lansdale with its poeticism. I don't make this claim lightly either: Lansdale is my favourite author. The storyline is solid and the book progresses to a satisfying conclusion.

I'd recommend this book if you're a horror fan or a fan of Curran's work. Don't be put off by the fact "Skin Medicine" is a western. This book will convert you to the horror-western genre. It's a nice little paperback from an emerging publishing house, well worth the cost. Give it a read. --James R.Cain Dark Animus

SKIN MEDICINE is rough carpentry, at its finest. You can hear the creaking of coincidence and craft, grinding together like the hipbones of an antique stripper. There's gunplay and fiends from hell and Indian curses galore. SKIN MEDICINE is the bastard child of a burned out Louis Lamour, mating beneath an evil star with a hopped up Bentley Little. It's painted dark and rich, heavy on the metaphor and soaked clear through with carnage galore. It's fun in the style of such over-the-top cinematic classics as REANIMATOR, DOG SOLDIERS, and TREMORS. The battlescenes are juicier than KILL BILL volumes one through crazy eighty eight. Don't read it for edification, this is for entertainment only. SKIN MEDICINE is a well told yarn. --Steve Vernon Horrorworld

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SKIN MEDICINE is rough carpentry, at its finest. You can hear the creaking of coincidence and craft, grinding together like the hipbones of an antique stripper. There's gunplay and fiends from hell and Indian curses galore. SKIN MEDICINE is the bastard child of a burned out Louis Lamour, mating beneath an evil star with a hopped up Bentley Little. It's painted dark and rich, heavy on the metaphor and soaked clear through with carnage galore. It's fun in the style of such over-the-top cinematic classics as REANIMATOR, DOG SOLDIERS, and TREMORS. The battlescenes are juicier than KILL BILL volumes one through crazy eighty eight. Don't read it for edification, this is for entertainment only. SKIN MEDICINE is a well told yarn.

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They were called the Gang of Ten. Masked night riders that rustled cattle and imposed vigilante justice on any who stood in their way. They were powerful, above the law.

But then they lynched the son of a Blackfoot medicine man who threatened to tell their terrible secret.

Now something is hunting them. One by one they die in the most horrible ways, victims of an ancient evil straight out of Blackfeet folklore. Deputy Marshal Joe Longtree is a man used to getting the truth. But in Wolf Creek, the truth can kill you. For when the sun sets behind the mountains and the shadows grow long, an unspeakable horror rises with a taste for human flesh and suffering. . .

Bringing unimaginable ancient horrors to light, this supernatural novel weaves several terrifying discoveries into one disquieting tale. At an isolated research station in Antarctica, a cosmologist experiences a singular, horrifying encounter.

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Dead men tell tales. From the corpse factories of World War I where graveyard rats sharpen their teeth on human bones to the wind-blown cemeteries of the prairie where resurrection comes at an unspeakable price...from the compound of a twisted messianic cult leader and his army of zombies to a post-apocalyptic wasteland where all that stands between the living and the evil dead is sacrifice in the form of a lottery. Dead men do tell tales. And these are their stories. Zombie Pulp is a collection of 9 short stories and 2 never before published novellas from the twisted undead mind of Tim Curran.