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Best-Selling author John Connolly's first assortment of short fiction, Nocturnes, today features five extra tales -- never-before printed for an American market -- in a black, bold, totally haunting anthology of lost lovers and missing children, deceptive devils, and vengeful spirits. In "The Brand New Child," a dad involves believe that the burial mound on his property covers something very old, and very much alive; in "The Underbury Wizards," two Birmingham investigators end up fighting an especially feminine evil in a city culled of its menfolk. And lastly, private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the long novella "The Reflecting Eye," where the picture of an unfamiliar woman appears in the mail of an abandoned house once occupied by an infamous monster. This breakthrough causes Parker to face the likelihood that the home isn't as empty because it seems, and that anything hasbeen waiting in the darkness because of its opportunity to kill again.