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{Read} {PDF EPUB} ~Download Dead Voices by Rick Hautala DEAD VOICES {Read} {PDF EPUB} ~download Dead Voices by Rick Hautala DEAD VOICES. ORDERING: All items subject to prior sale. Items may be reserved by phone, fax or e-mail. Items held for 7 days after order pending payment. REMITTANCE: Payment by check or money order in U.S. funds. Credit cards and Paypal accepted. CREDIT CARDS: Visa, Mastercard, American Express. When ordering please include your card number, expiration date and name of cardholder as it appears on the card and the 3 or 4 digit code. Please also include the cardholder billing address. SALES TAX: Maryland resid. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. Dead Voices by Rick Hautala. From and To can't be the same language. That page is already in . Something went wrong. Check the webpage URL and try again. Sorry, that page did not respond in a timely manner. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Something went wrong, please try again. Try using the Translator for the Microsoft Edge extension instead. Dead Voices by Rick Hautala. From and To can't be the same language. That page is already in . Something went wrong. Check the webpage URL and try again. Sorry, that page did not respond in a timely manner. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Something went wrong, please try again. Try using the Translator for the Microsoft Edge extension instead. Rick Hautala. Rick Hautala (February 3, 1949 – March 21, 2013) is best known as a speculative fiction and horror writer. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1974 where he received a Master of Art in English Literature. Rick arrived on the horror scene in 1980 with many of his early novels published by Zebra books. He has written and published over 90 novels and short stories since the early 1980s. Many of his books have been translated to other languages and sold internationally. Cold Whisper, published in October, 1991 by Zebra Books, Inc. was also published in Finnish as Haamu by Werner Soderstrom Oy, Helsinki, Finland, in August, 1994. Recently he has published many of his works with specialty press and small press publishers like Cemetery Dance Publications and Dark Harvest. His novel The Wildman (2008), was chosen to be Full Moon Press' debut limited edition title. Hautala's third novel, 1986's Night Stone, was one of the first books to feature a holographic cover and it became an international best-seller, selling well over one million copies. "Knocking" was a part of the Bram Stoker Award winning anthology 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense ("Best Anthology of 1999"). His short story collection, Bedbugs (1999) was selected by Barnes & Noble as one of the most distinguished horror publications of the year 2000. Rick Hautala also writes screenplays. His most recent 2008 adaptation of award winning author Kealan Patrick Burke's "Peekers" is currently on the film festival circuit. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2007 short film Dead@17 based on Josh Howard's graphic novel series of the same name, and The Ugly File, directed by Mark Steensland, based on the short story by Ed Gorman. The Horror Writers Association gave him the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement for 2011, which he received at the Bram Stoker Awards Banquet in Salt Lake City, Utah on 31 March 2012. 0446352020 - Dead Voices by Hautala, Rick. [New York]: Warner Books [1990]. Very Good. 1990. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. 0446352020 . First edition. This copy has been inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. "A young girl killed on a desolate highway. A mother agonized by unceasing guilt. In the vivid light of day, in the nightmare depths of sleep, her daughter calls to her from the grave". 406 pages. VG copy [partial fading of the orange spine lettering, upper corner creasing to the front cover, cheap text paper starting to tan].; Signed by Author . Warner Books [1990], [New York], 1990. Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. DEAD VOICES. Hautala, Rick [cover illustration by Richard Newton, design by Don Puckey] Rick Hautala — Author. With the arrival recently of my agency copies of both STAR ROAD and THE DEAD LANDS, I declare this Rick Hautala month on The Fleck Agency’s page. Go forth and buy copies of Rick’s books and come here and talk about your memories of him. Comment on this post and I’ll enter you in a drawing on March 1. Three people will receive a free copy of one of the three books in the Agency header, so share this with your book loving friends. The followup post: To be clear which books are in the give away, I’ll be sending each of three lucky commenters on my post about Rick Hautala Month a copy of THE DEAD LANDS or THE DEMON’S WIFE from JournalStone Publishing or STAR ROAD coauthored with Matthew J. Costello and published by Thomas Dunne Books . You can find their post and enter the contest on Facebook here. More reviews of The Dead Lands. Here are a couple more new reviews of The Dead Lands : New review of The Dead Lands. ReadersFavorite.com has posted a new, 5-star review of Rick’s The Dead Lands . You can read the review here. Horror World reviews The Dead Lands. Horror World has posted a review of The Dead Lands , the upcoming Mockingbird Bay mystery by Rick Hautala. You can read the review on their website. The Dead Lands will be published in February 2014 by JournalStone Publishing. You can pre-order the book from JournalStone Publishing. Cover art for The Dead Lands revealed. JournalStone Publishing has revealed the cover art for Mockingbird Bay: The Dead Lands , Rick’s last-written novel. The artwork is by Glenn Chadbourne. Here’s the synopsis of the story: In a place Abby calls the Dead Lands, she aids individuals trapped by unfinished Earthly business and helps them move on. Abby meets Megan McGowan there, a sixteen-year-old girl who fell to her death on the rocky shores of Mockingbird Bay. Megan can’t remember if it was an accident…or something worse. With the help of Jim Burke, a young man who becomes a close friend, Abbey works to discover how Megan became trapped in this empty place. But Abby has other troubles — her uncle, the Reverend George Standley, evil and vengeful, pursues her with his Hell Hounds through the twilight realms of the Dead Lands, waiting for her at every turn. Fortunately a mysterious protector helps her evade her uncle’s terrible revenge. Who is this spirit protector? And will Abby ever gain release from this unchained prison? The book is not yet orderable, but you can visit the book page at JournalStone Publishing..
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