The dream always started the same . . .

Psychologist Meredith Morgan understands the how and why of dreams. She understands that dreams are how our subconscious mind tells us things we are too busy to notice.

It was a nearly senseless dream . . .

She understands that some see dreams as prophetic, as the future reaching back and giving us a clue as to what is to come. Some see dreams as open doors through which the past can claw its way into the present. Dreams are where time and space collapse.

Meredith awoke . . .

But dreams are dreams, and when you wake up, the people you meet in your dreams shouldn’t still be with you . . .

From Award-winner Jack Cady comes a novel that is part murder-mystery, part classical tragedy, and part spiritual journey.

Set among the Cherokee of North Carolina in the 1950s, Inagehi is the story of a young woman who inherits a mountain and the mystery of her father’s death.

With themes as ancient as the existence of God and as modern as post-traumatic stress disorder, Inagehi answers that voice inside us all that asks how “it” all fits together. A work of uncommon power from a master craftsman.

Inagehi was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award.

A novel of transcendental horror and vengeance from the author of The Well and The Jonah Watch. In the heart of the deep south, where memories of a war long over still simmer, Dan McDowell is pursued by a chilling apparition—the spectral image of his great-grandfather . . . a family horror almost too awful to comprehend. Destined to learn the secret of his family’s past, McDowell is constrained to repeat—in the name of honor and Southern chivalry—the heinous crime of his ancestor, an act required, demanded by his ghost . . .

NS201005 May 2010 Night Shade Books

Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories

by Fritz Leiber
edited by Jonathan Strahan and
Charles N. Brown

Rules of '48

by Jack Cady

Grey

by Jon Armstrong

In a working-class city with roots deep in the Confederacy, five men will endure seven deadly weeks that will forever alter their perceptions of the world. These haunting events transpiring over the summer of 1948 will irrevocably mark their understanding of race and responsibility in postwar America.

Laconic, nuanced, and stylish, master storyteller Jack Cady's depiction of mid-century Louisville, Kentucky, is fraught with racial tension, precise detail, and the delicate, figurative ghosts of the actions and inactions of the past.

From Jack Cady, award-winning author of The Hauntings of Hood Canal and Ghosts of Yesterday, comes the astonishing final novel Rules of '48, a stirring semi-autobiographical examination of changing social conventions and the development of the American conscience in the aftermath of the greatest war in history. Jack Cady died in January 2004, but his insightful vision of American life lives on in Rules of '48.

"For more than 30 years, Cady has been one of America's great chroniclers of characters and places . . . . Few writers can capture the rhythms of blue-collar speech as well as Cady does . . . "
—Publishers Weekly

"Jack Cady is above all, a writer of great, unmistakable integrity and profound feeling . . . Jack Cady's is a voice we need to hear."
—Peter Straub

Jack Cady shares his knowledge of the American Writer in this wonderful and provocative book. The American Writer is both an open letter to young writers and a lovely overview for anyone interested in reading.

Cady traces with insight and passion the threads of sin and original good in American literature, examines the thorny question of race, and explores the fantastic in modern fiction. He looks at familiar writers like Hemingway and Steinbeck, and repeatedly focuses on storytellers who have fallen out of favor today.

Decidedly non-canonical and definitely not Politically Correct, this long overdue reprint of The American Writer celebrates the nation’s whole literary history from its roots to its crowning achievements up to the year 2000. It sees the New World through experienced eyes. Passionate, honest, and powerfully inspiring, it will be read and treasured for years to come.

The dream always started the same . . .

Psychologist Meredith Morgan understands the how and why of dreams. She understands that dreams are how our subconscious mind tells us things we are too busy to notice.

It was a nearly senseless dream . . .

She understands that some see dreams as prophetic, as the future reaching back and giving us a clue as to what is to come. Some see dreams as open doors through which the past can claw its way into the present. Dreams are where time and space collapse.

Meredith awoke . . .

But dreams are dreams, and when you wake up, the people you meet in your dreams shouldn’t still be with you . . .