This is one of my Favorite books by Robert McCammon. It's an anthology. It has 12 short stories and a short novella. Every story in this book is good a few of them are great, Some of the best writting he has ever done. They are all creepy and nerve wrecking. The title story Blue World is this really great Horror mystery story that shows his talents for character developement that he uses so well for his later novels specifically Boys Life and Gone South, both superb novels. (

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NickKnight | Aug 9, 2008 |

Acollection of short stories. Most were OK except for Blue World, the last story. Wow! A true gem of a story. I just coulld not put the book down. Sorry it had to end.

Tommie1 | Aug 4, 2008 |

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Blue World

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Darkroom:Make Up (1981 ∙ s1e8 ∙ IMDb)

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Bram Stoker Award Nominee (Collection, 1989)

World Fantasy Award Nominee (Collection, 1990)

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Johnny James was sitting on the front porch, sipping from a glass of gasoline in the December heat, when the doomscreamer came. (from the short story 'Something Passed By')

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"We will travel, you and I, across a tortured land where hope struggles to grow like seed in a drought. In this land, a place with no boundaries, we'll run the freeways and back roads and we'll listen to the song of the wheels and peer into windows at lives that might be our own, if we lived in that land." So Robert McCammon introduces this superb collection of 13 stories, nominated for a 1990 Bram Stoker Award for Best Story Collection. The standouts are "Blue World" (a richly imagined novella about a priest facing temptation); "Nightcrawlers" (a World Fantasy Award-winner about a Vietnam vet in a roadside diner); "Night Calls the Green Falcon" (has-been fictional hero dons his old costume to fight real evil); "Yellowjacket Summer" (fateful stop for gas in backwoods Georgia); and "Pin" (dare you to read that one). All of the stories are excellent.

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