The Land at the End of the Working Day (iSigned (Hardcover) by Peter Crowther

A NOVELLA LENGTH COLLECTION by Peter Crowther

PUBLISHER Humdrumming
CATEGORY Fantasy/Horror
PUBLICATION DATE 2008
PAGES 128

ABOUT THE BOOK

Collects four stories: with a separate introduction by Ian McDonald, Elizabeth Hand, Joe Hill & Lucius Shepard for each story respectively.

On a windswept corner of Manhattan, just a stone's throw from the weathered facade of the legendary Chelsea Hotel, there's a small two-flight walkdown bar called The Land at the End of the Working Day. Stop in & rest awhile? you'll meet the most fascinating people. There's Jack Fedogan, widowed these past few years & still carrying a torch for his beloved Phyllis while he plays smooth jazz on the barroom's battered PA system. & the wonderful triptych of regular imbibers: Edgar Nornhoevan, Jim Leafman & McCoy Brewer, meeting up to escape the world outside or to have a drink with like-minded souls or maybe just to share a few jokes. & meet one-off visitors. Folks like Gandalph Cohen, the magical caretaker of the City's welfare; Front-Page McGuffin, who, it has to be said, has been in better health; Bernard Boyce Bennington, who carries a torch for a woman who loved him & left him (with a bizarrely magical memento); & Horatio Fortesque & Meredith Lidenbrook Greenblat, scholars of the works of the great Jules Verne & hot on the trail to a doorway to another world - a doorway that could just be situated in a backroom of one of Manhattan's strangest locations'.