Fred Chappell

• Nov-1971
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-1987
• / Horror
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Regularly cited in lists of the world’s best horror novels, Dagon tells the story of Peter Leland whose ancestral secrets emerge to plunge him into a world of terror and degradation.  Employing the Mythos developed by America’s great fantasi...

• Mar-1987
• / General Fiction
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Fred Chappell is one of our most brilliant and versatile authors, with many novels, short stories, and volumes of poetry to his credit. This anthology bears witness to the scope of his career: a rich body of narrative and lyrical fictions ranging ove...

• Sep-1987
• / General Fiction
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Wonderfully funny and also deeply touching, I Am One of You Forever is the story of a young boy's coming of age. Set in the hills and hollows of western North Carolina in the years around World War II, it tells of ten-year-old Jess and his family ...

• Aug-1989
• / General Fiction
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Brighten the Corner Where You Are is the riveting story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman, a North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prankster, country philosopher, and family man. This novel from award-winning author Fred Chappell has wo...

• Sep-1991
• / General Fiction
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These thirteen tales are populated by an assortment of fictional as well as real characters, all of them vividly sketched and true-to-life: the botanist Linnaeus, the composer Offenbach, the poet Hart Crane, the visionary horror writer H. P. Lovecraf...

• Apr-1994
• / General Fiction
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Violence and sex in a small Southern city.  Arkie, Clemmie, Oxie, and Johns are linked by a schoolboy's prank. Arkie, Clemmie, and Oxie are three of a kind: cons who grub for small change. They have no history and no future. Johns is their count...

• Sep-1996
• / General Fiction
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Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You is rich with the music of the Southern mountains and the stories of their people. In this novel from acclaimed author Fred Chappell, Jess Kirkman's grandmother is dying, and Jess remembers the tales she and his mother...

• Nov-1996
• / General Fiction
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James Christopherâ€"book editor, husband, and father of twoâ€"is headed for trouble. Once a North Carolina farm boy who grew up hoeing, fighting, and listening to his grandmother read from the Bible, James resigns from his job for no apparent reason,...

• Sep-1999
• / Suspense
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The last in the Kirkman family cycle by one of our most treasured writersIn Look Back All the Green Valley, Jess Kirkman returns to the North Carolina mountain town of his boyhood to be with his ailing mother and finally settle the family's accounts ...

• Sep-2009
• / General Fiction
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Moments of Light Foreward by Annie Dillard.  These stories prove that the mythic powers of the balladeer and the story teller survive even in this fragmented and unmysterious day. In the eleven stories gathered here, Fred Chappell engages and en...

• Nov-2009
• / General Fiction
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In this collection, Fred Chappell shows his mastery across a range of genres. Featuring folk fables in the Twain tradition, realistic stories of growing up in remote Appalachia, stories of family, kin, and community, and tales of the fantastic and sp...

• Aug-2014
• / General Fiction
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Solitary, graceful, and contemplative, cats have inspired poets from Charles Baudelaire to Margaret Atwood to serve as their chroniclers and celebrants. They have appeared, wrapped in their inscrutability, in verse both sensual and spiritual, wear...

• Dec-2015
• / Horror
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The largest collection of Fred Chappell stories ever collected in one volume, including original artwork by David Ho and European master Fritz Janschka. Also included is a new introduction by Fred Chappell himself, with photographs of the author a...

• Apr-2016
• / Fantasy
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Fred Chappell's A Shadow All of Light, a stylish, episodic fantasy novel, follows the exploits of Falco, a young man from the country, who arrives in the port city of Tardocco with the ambition of becoming an apprentice to a master shadow thief. Maes...