Wakes

The Girl Next Door, unlike She Wakes, is not a supernatural horror story, but a starkly realistic and gut-wrenching story that may be the most chilling novel I've read.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

The Girl Next Door, unlike She Wakes, is not a supernatural horror story, but a starkly realistic and gut-wrenching story that may be the most chilling novel I've read.

Rabid Reads: "The Girl Next Door" by Jack Ketchum 2009

The "Wakes," or village feast, was a great day for all sports and pastimes.

Old English Sports 1892

At Weddings and Wakes 1992 was something I wrote because I was not finding something about family in the works of other writers.

Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Alice McDermott Talks About Her "Long Run" in Fiction as Charming Billy Becomes a Play Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2011

At Weddings and Wakes 1992 was something I wrote because I was not finding something about family in the works of other writers.

Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Alice McDermott Talks About Her "Long Run" in Fiction as Charming Billy Becomes a Play Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2011

The steep incline in Victoria Avenue concealed the approaching ocean from “Now Wakes the Sea”.

Ballardian » “Enthusiasm for the mysterious emissaries of pulp”: an interview with David Britton (the Savoy interviews, part 2a) 2010

The father in Charles Harper Webb's "The Sound That Wakes Me at Night, Thinking of It" imagines getting his hands on the killer of his child and utters a soul-curdling cry, "between a train grinding to a panic-stop, / and a jet fighter screeching off to bomb Iraq— / sound of a gut-stuck bear before it mauled Neanderthal."

The ABCBs Of Murder Tom Nolan 2011

Mr. Walkley is also distinguished from other New York-area musicians by the quality of his solo recordings: His 2009 album, "Mr. Macy Wakes Alone," the "Nice Guy Johnny" soundtrack, and his new three-song EP, "The Ghost of Chivalry," all reveal a power-pop singer-songwriter in the tradition of David Bowie, Alex Chilton, Elvis Costello, Ray Davies and Paul McCartney.

P.T. Walkley: As Heard on TV Jim Fusilli 2011

And he was writing in the mid 20th century of things that are affecting us now – climate change (The Kraken Wakes), GM crops (The Day of the Triffids), genetic engineering (Midwich Cuckoos and possibly Chocky).

Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

John Wyndham is fantastic (ignore the sci-fi tag) – suggest you start with The Kraken Wakes, I plan on rereading this very soon.

Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room 2009