Night Shivers - Terry Trafton

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Résumé :
Stories for rainy days. Great late night reading. Night Shivers--ghosts, time travel, parallel universes, mystery and romance drive the plotlines in this collection of short stories. Frightening journeys into the shivery realm of the supernatural, these unnerving tales probe those dark and mysterious places that inhabit the wildest imagination. A stormy Halloween night, six guests at a s?ance have no idea what eerie events The Farley Town Witch has planned for them. Phantom carousel spins riders into a parallel universe. Nothing unusual about the chair in the corner . . . not until the man who sits in it vanishes. No escaping the ghostly visitations of the Blue Lady in a story of heartbreak and retribution. Spencer Ingalls declares that spirits are nothing more than superstition--until one late night when he hears a woman from the other side calling him. In the stories September Rain and Night Magic, time moves backward with each sweep of the second hand. In love with a young woman who lived 150 years before he was born, Evan Kenner is shocked by a photograph of himself in the 19th century. On a late-night bus to Dothan, Alabama, a sensitive young woman hides a painful secret. Hopkinsville, Kentucky--the man with happy eyes boards the bus and immediately paints sunshine on a snowy wintery night. Willow Creek Road--eighteen miles of asphalt with a frightening reputation! More unnerving than the raging thunderstorm is the strange young woman sitting next to him in the story A Light for Lily. Taken from a drugged-out mother, thirty-year-old Billy Ryan spent eighteen years in foster care. Now a night watchman at Clayton's, Billy has plenty of time to build a town for his mannequin friends--an enchanting town on the third floor of Clayton's General Store...

Biographie:
Terry Trafton grew up in Southern Indiana. He received a BA from the University of Evansville, an MA from the University of Illinois, and his doctorate from Northern Illinois University. A former military veteran and retired university professor, Trafton taught full-time at the University of Maryland in Japan and was an adjunct professor at Okinawa University. He has written frequently on Okinawan life and culture. He lives in North Carolina with his wife, Dr. Joyce Trafton, their son and daughter, and two grandsons. He is the author of the novel, Spider Lines....

Sommaire:
but strange are the ways of fate in the story Night Strike. Molly in the Sun--reality or recurring illusion? Danger waits in the deep shadows of a full moon, and for one man, distinguishing between illusion and reality is no longer possible. Hush Money is a story of deception in which old friends become familiar strangers. Who are the Dropa people and what messages are revealed on the mysterious Dropa Stones? Did an interstellar spacecraft crash-land in Eastern China? Written in Stone revisits the theory that these smallish people have an extraterrestrial history. Panic in Archer Anderson's backyard! The thing buried there is coming to life and no one realizes the terror ahead--until it's too late....