November Mourns: A Novel

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Random House Publishing Group, May 31, 2005 - Fiction - 320 pages
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Tom Piccirilli's The Last Kind Words.

Two years ago Shad Jenkins went to prison for assaulting his
sister’s attacker. Now he has returned to the southern mountain town of Moon Run Hollow, only to find that Megan is dead. No one knows how she died–or why she was found on Gospel Trail Road, a dirt path leading up to the gorge high above the Chatalaha River, where victims of yellow fever were once brought to die.

Navigating a world filled with abnormal children and clandestine snake handlers, one that is slowly being poisoned by illegal moonshine, Shad must pierce the townsfolk’s superstitions and terrible secrets to find out the truth about his sister’s death. But the Blood Dreams he’s suffered from since childhood have taken on an eerie urgency, revealing to Shad the nightmarish form of an unseen adversary. Plagued by the wraiths that haunt the hollow, Shad finds himself increasingly unsure of his own sanity as he begins to piece together what may have happened to his sister–and who exactly his enemy is....
 

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Contents

Section 1
5
Section 2
24
Section 3
41
Section 4
48
Section 5
63
Section 6
77
Section 7
87
Section 8
100
Section 11
153
Section 12
167
Section 13
180
Section 14
197
Section 15
210
Section 16
221
Section 17
235
Section 18
250

Section 9
111
Section 10
131
Section 19
271
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Tom Piccirilli is the author of eleven novels, including A Choir of Ill Children, The Night Class, A Lower Deep, and Hexes. His two collections of short fiction, Deep Into that Darkness Peering and Mean Sheep, collect only a fraction of his published short work, which spans multiple genres and demonstrate his wide-ranging abilities. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and has won the Bram Stoker Award three times.

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