Buy this book on-line HOLDSTOCK**, ROBERT - writing as FAULCON, ROBERT: : THE GHOST DANCELONDON.CENTURY HUTCHISON LTD.,1987. ISBN 0712617477.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[THE GHOSTDANCE and THE SHRINE (Volumes three and four of Collection II,in the six-volume supernatural 'Nighthunter'' series.) in the first 1-volume edn.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj, minor superficial indents/scoring but without any penetration or affecting the boards beneath.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj with white,red and yellow lettering to front panel,white+yellow lettered spine/ backstrip,rear panel with black+yellow lettering.With negligible shelf-wear, bumping creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original dark blue cloth boards/covers without any blemishes and with bright, crisp,stamped gilt lettering to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps. Top edges with very light toning but no foxing,fore-edges bright and clean,also without foxing; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-411pp [paginated] includes 14 chapters+Coda for 'The Ghost Dance','The Shrine' with a prologue,Pts 1-3 comprising 1,5 and 6 chapters respectively,and Coda,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a title separator page,a dedication for 'The Ghostdancer',a further title separator page for 'The Shrine',a dedication,a contents list/table with an epigram (Sir Walter Raleigh) to its reverse,individual Pts separator pages and 4pp blanks at rear of the book.
Robert Holdstock,writing as Robert Faulcon with these two stories being written as paperback originals in 1983 and 1984 respectively and this edn is the first time for these two stories to be combined in one-volume.
The Nightmare continues. . . .Six months ago,on a freezing winter's night,thirty minutes of obscene terror have left Dan Brady a lonely and desperate man,searching for the family that has been stolen from him.Who or what has taken his wife and two children? And for what dark purpose? His only lead is the memory of what he saw during that terrible attack: a grinning, dead face; a jewelled object with the mask of Death carved on it.A labyrinthine pattern; and a voice whispering 'magondathog'.
One by one these clues come to mean something as Brady hunts for the evil, first in a remote mountain village,where the ghosts of an ancient and alien culture are about to be released from their human guardian; and then in the West Country where abandoned Roman tin mines now conceal a strange and terrifying secret.
Dan Brady is the Nighthunter.But those he hunts are aware of his pursuit,and are setting traps for him.
A highly collected and prolific award-winning author in his genre,in Holdstock's typical,chilling style and format and will be an important and welcome addition to his canon.
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