After Dachau (23 page)

I wonder what Mallory will think when I tell her my first offering as a publisher of original material will be the diary of another young woman who was hunted down for extermination, a Jewish teenager named Anne Frank.

The story of Mary Anne Dorson was based loosely on that of Lurancy Vennum, born in Watseka, Illinois, in 1865. Lurancy’s story was told in the local newspaper, in the pages of many spiritualist magazines, in the book
The Watseka Wonder
by E. W. Stevens (one of the physicians involved in the case), and in a modern retelling,
Watseka
, by David St. Clair, published in 1977 by Playboy Press but currently out of print.

Knowing how interested readers are in my beliefs, I should add that, although I employ fantastic elements in my novels when they serve my purpose, this shouldn’t be taken as an assertion of their reality. For example, I have no personal belief in reincarnation or in the transmigration of souls, and it’s no part of my intention in this book to promote these beliefs.

D
ANIEL
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Hardcover
$12.95 • 96 pages
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Tales of Adam

Adam, a hunter-gatherer standing at the threshold of human history, passes the gift of wisdom to his son Abel through seven profound but delightfully simple tales that illuminate the world in which humans
became
humans. This is the world seen through animist eyes: as friendly to human life as it was to the life of gazelles, lions, lizards, mosquitos, jellyfish, and seals—not a world in which humans lived like trespassers who must conquer and subdue an alien territory.

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The Holy

They knew us before we began to walk upright. Shamans called them guardians, mythmakers called them tricksters, pagans called them gods, churchmen called them demons, folklorists called them shape-shifters. In this dazzling metaphysical thriller, four who put themselves in the hands of these all-but-forgotten Others venture across a sinister American landscape hidden from normal view, finding their way to interlocking destinies of death, terror, transcedental rapture, and shattering enlightenment.