Kenneth Tucker
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He awoke in Chicago with a name no one had ever heard and discovered that he was a private eye. And the year was 1940, but a 1940 that somehow he knew was not historical. For no one knew of Hitler and the Axis and the European war that would engulf the world. Fairies and trolls were among the city's inhabitants. Moreover, Chicago was being ravaged by a peculiar plague that caused madness and then spontaneous combustion of human beings. He himself...
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Meet Leo Krull who encountered his dream girl when she emerged from his television screen; Lester Wilthammer, who, when his wife left him, took an almost unimaginable step; Marcus Garth who made a regrettable deal with a human devil during Kentucky's tobacco wars; a werewolf in full hair and fangs who played "Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. I" along with a symphony orchestra; a boy and girl whose first experience with young love becomes entangled...
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After his adventures in other dimensions based on Arthurian legend and H. Rider Haggard's Africa, Hal Morgan finds himself hurled into an alternate reality based upon the operas of Richard Wagner. There Hal must locate the stolen Ring of the Nibelungs and return it to the Rhine Maidens, before its curse can destroy him. Along the way he must contend with treacherous nobles, gnomes, giants, zombies, witches, a dragon, the Flying Dutchman, Valkyries,...
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The strange book of Enoch, the potion of Circe, and the sonnets of Shakespeare all herald the return of an ancient evil, and Father Sam Stone, an Anglican priest and recovering alcoholic, finds himself called in to investigate a supposed case of reincarnation, but finds himself confronting an evil being from the depths of time. He must turn private detective in order to save a young girls sanity and discover the nature of the supernatural threat.
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A Gilligan's Island in outer space, a Lost on another planet, an extravagant satire in the spirit of Voltaire's Candide? Perhaps elements of all contribute to Kenneth Tucker's Farewell, MuirsheenDirken. In a society run by judges, in which all persons are judges but some judges are more equal than others, Winston Savage rebels by casting aside his number and choosing for himself a name. As a result he is banished to the mysterious Other Utopia...
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With the cessation of the Indian Wars, Silas Magby believed that Western Kentucky would be safe for his wife and children. But then the Harpes came-two mysterious brothers, Micajah and Wiley, with three devoted women followers, leaving a wake of ghoulish and seemingly motiveless murders-men, women, children, infants, bludgeoned, stabbed, shot, or set on fire. Earlier Magby had participated in a fruitless attempt to capture the brothers, but word comes...
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A novel of the Civil War set in Kentucky and Tennessee and the story of a man who did not know who he was. Was Jerry Manning the son of a mad woman? A foundling abandoned by vagrants? Or the supposedly murdered child of a wealthy family? Would he find the answer during the turmoil of the War Between the States?
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After his conflict with Capone, Eliot Ness becomes the public safety director of Cleveland Ohio. He scores resounding victories against corrupt unions and organized crime, but confronts an enemy he might not be able to arrest. A string of grotesque serial killings-bodies dismembered and their parts scattered in an area known as Kingsbury Run-threatens the city. As public pressure mounts for the so-called Mad Butcher's capture, Ness learns of very...
9) The Headless Horseman of Harrod's Creek and Other Encounters With the Supernatural of a Man Named
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As he is preparing to leave for college, Gregory Trent receives a surprising gift, a sword cane containing a portion of the blade of a knight of the Holy Grail. With this strange gift comes a sworn duty to use it against supernatural forces of evil. While in college, Trent falls for a mysterious girl, Doralice, but once he discovers her true nature, he must abandon his plans for a future together. Doralice swears vengeance, and as Trent begins investigating...
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