The Little Sleep

Mark Genevich is a South Boston P.I. with a little problem: he’s narcoleptic, and he suffers from the most severe symptoms, including hypnogogic hallucinations. These waking dreams wreak havoc for a guy who depends on real-life clues to make his living.

Clients haven’t exactly been beating down the door when Mark meets Jennifer Times—daughter of the powerful local D.A. and a contestant on American Star—who walks into his office with an outlandish story about a man who stole her fingers. He awakes from his latest hallucination alone, but on his desk is a manila envelope containing risqué photos of Jennifer. Are the pictures real, and if so, is Mark hunting a blackmailer, or worse?

Wildly imaginative and with a pitch-perfect voice, The Little Sleep is the first in a new series that casts a fresh eye on the rigors of detective work.

"Rejoice, Chandler fans. The Little Sleep is as bitingly sardonic as it is hardboiled. Like Jonathan Lethem in Motherless Brooklyn, Paul Tremblay slices, dices and spins the neo-noir his own strange way and delivers a fast, smart, and completely satisfying read."—Stewart O'Nan, author of A Night at the Lobster, A Prayer for the Dying, and The Speed Queen

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Bandersnatch

From the Introduction: Lewis Carroll named a curious creature the Bandersnatch in his dreamlike Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark poems. He didn’t describe many physical details of the phantasmagorical creature. He did, however, give the following warning: “shun the frumious Bandersnatch.”

"It may or may not be frumious, but this original anthology from Tremblay (City Pier: Above & Below) and Wallace (Jabberwocky 2) positively revels in the "strange, dark, and unpredictable...For those who dig that funky groove, this anthology more than delivers what it promises." -Publisher's Weekly

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City Pier: Above And Below

ABOVE: City is sprawling, technocratic, corrupt, and built hundreds of feet above a bay, resting upon the giant wooden shoulders of Pier.

BELOW: Pier is a seemingly endless maze of stripped sequoia trees with trunks as thick as buildings, branches molded into a complex lattice of support beams and struts.

ABOVE and BELOW: The people. Weapons dealers and hired heavies with major Daddy-issues; a Pier-deported homeless man and a pistol packing priest trying to survive with each other and their terrible secrets; a librarian haunted by City's violent history, his family, and by Balloons; a flawed and shattered woman who wants to escape City no matter the cost. Their lives are a part of each other. Their lives are a part of City Pier.

"Paul Tremblay's City Pier milieu is hardboiled future noir, funky and fun, like a weird telepod accident blending Mickey Spillane and Philip K. Dick." -Jeffrey Thomas

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Compositions for the Young and Old

"This is accomplished, sensitive work by a writer who not only means to scare you and maybe even warn you, but to move you." - Jack Ketchum: The Girl Next Door and Red.

A jar that holds your deepest secrets and fears. A fireman confronts his past while trying to save a group of children who have fallen through thin ice. A preacher's daughter goes to fantastic and desperate lengths to write a book like Mark Twain. A man who cures people's pain and sadness through laughter finds his greatest challenge in a little boy.

"His eye is both compassionate and merciless..."-Poppy Z. Brite

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