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Authors: Marc Laidlaw

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My thanks to all those who have been with me along the way, sharing advice, encouragement, support. My editors, my teachers in school and out of it, my friends, my family.

And thanks especially to my readers.

 

BOOKS BY MARC LAIDLAW

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400 Boys and 50 More

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION: 400 + 50 = 51

THE SEVENTIES: FAIL EARLY

SPAWN OF THE RUINS

TISSUE

RATTLEGROUND

THE EIGHTIES: PEAK OMNI

SNEAKERS

400 BOYS

THE RANDOM MAN

SEA OF TRANQUILLITY

MUZAK FOR TORSO MURDERS

SHUCK BROTHER

FAUST FORWARD

NUTRIMANCER

THE LIQUOR CABINET OF DR. MALIKUDZU

GOOD ‘N’ EVIL, OR, THE ONCE AND FUTURE THING

LOAVES FROM HELL

LOVE COMES TO THE MIDDLEMAN

MIDDLEMAN’S RENT

THE FARMER ON THE WALL

BRUNO’S SHADOW

YOUR STYLE GUIDE—USE IT WISELY

MARS WILL HAVE BLOOD

UNEASY STREET

THE DEMONSTRATION

HIS POWDER’D WIG, HIS CROWN OF THORNES

THE NINETIES: FIRST-PERSON READER

WARTORN, LOVELORN

GASOLINE LAKE

WUNDERKINDERGARTEN

THE VULTURE MAIDEN

GREAT BREAKTHROUGHS IN DARKNESS

TERROR FAN

THE DIANE ARBUS SUICIDE PORTFOLIO

THE BLACK BUS

MAD WIND

TO LIE BETWEEN THE LOINS OF PERKY PAT

NETHER REACHES

TOTAL CONVERSION

THE NEW MILLENNIUM: HALF-LIFE & LESSONS HALF-LEARNED

SLEEPY JOE

CELL CALL

FLIGHT RISK

JANE

SWEETMEATS

EVALUATION OF THE HANNEMOUTH BEQUEST

AN EVENING’S HONEST PERIL

THE VICAR OF R’LYEH

LENG

BEYOND 2010: OVER THE INFLUENCE

POKKY MAN

THE BOY WHO FOLLOWED LOVECRAFT

FORGET YOU

BONFIRES

THE FRIGID ILK OF SARN KATHOOL

THE GHOST PENNY POST

THE FINEST, FULLEST FLOWERING

AFTERWORD

BOOKS BY MARC LAIDLAW

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