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Whispers is a novel by American suspense author Dean Koontz, originally published in 1980. It was the first of Koontz's novels to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list, and is widely credited with launching his career as a best-selling author. The novel was also adapted for a 1990 film by the same name.
The booklet details the various types of dwarves found in the Forgotten Realms. The book itself is printed on parchment-colored paper, [10] and is wrapped in a three-panel removable gatefold cover. The contents include the current situation concerning dwarves in the campaign world. [11]
Jelly Roll: A Blues is a 2003 poetry collection by Kevin Young. The 208-page book – Young's third – is named for jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton and develops a blues-based collection of love poems, [1] written predominantly in two-line stanzas. [2] In 2003, it was a National Book Award finalist and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. [3]
Whisper of Waves is a fantasy novel by Philip Athans, set in the world of the Forgotten Realms, and based on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. It is the first novel in "The Watercouse Trilogy". [1] It was published in paperback in November 2005.
The book was reviewed in The New York Times by J. Glenn Gray in 1971. [2] He reports the "book is painful to get through. But it is also difficult to put down and is worth the cost in horror that reading it entails." Other reviews from 1971 include The New Yorker, [6] Time magazine, [1] and The New Republic by James Walt. [7]
Brad Bigelow is the author of the website, he reportedly has had a lifelong interest in finding and reading neglected books, typically by browsing used books stores. He says he was inspired by David Madden's book Rediscoveries (1971), [5] a collection of essays by a variety of writers about little-known or long-forgotten books. [6]
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialized world.
Whispers was first published in July 1973. [1] It went on to become a more elaborate showcase for dark fantasy fiction and artwork of the 1970s. Schiff's early influences included the story of Aladdin, the Gorgon and the Cyclops, Edgar Allan Poe, Weird Tales and Lee Brown Coye. He subsequently became an avid collector of horror books and ...