FICTION
Gordon Snell
Most acclaimed
The haunted hills
1942
The grim order tenderfoot Shellton Sherman was given shortly after he took a job at Sunbeam Ranch was simple: "If he comes, shoot!" But did shooting make sense? Could bullets down a shost? While riding in the hills, Sherman had come upon tracks that were neither animal nor human. Then a flock of sheep was killed by having their necks twisted. Days later a sheepman's neck was broken the same way. Terror spread over the entire range. Some ranchers branded Alec Vurney, owner of the Sunbeam and a hater of sheepmen, as the murderer. But that did not explain the weird cries that echoed from the hills or the ugly shape that drifted through the night. Sherman rode to find an explanation. It was a ride that brought him to a monster and close to death!
Thicker Than Water
In the fourth gripping book in this series, old ghosts of different kinds come back to haunt Felix Names and faces he thought he'd left behind in Liverpool resurface in London, bringing Castor far more trouble than he'd anticipated. Childhood memories, family traumas, sins old and new, and a council estate that was meant to be a modern utopia until it turned into something like hell--these are just some of the sticks life uses to beat Felix Castor with as things go from bad to worse for London's favorite freelance exorcist. See, Castor's stepped over the line this time, and he knows he'll have to pay; how much is the only question. Not the best of times, then, for an unwelcome confrontation with his holier-than-thou brother, Matthew, and just when he thinks things can't possibly get any worse, along comes Father Gwillam and the Anathemata. Oh joy.