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Alice in wonderland meets Narnia Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue . . . Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. When Phoebe is moved to a specialist hospital one night as Ceres is leaving she sees a mysterious old house in the hospital grounds she asks for more information about it &one of the hospital staff tells her it belonged to an. author &that the royalties from the book allowed the building of the hospital&that he mysteriously disappeared. One day Ceres decides to investigate the house &is transported to another world one inhabited by murderous fairy's (fae) tree spirit (dryad)&harpies. The book works as a stand alone story but would benefit from reading the first book cos as the story unfolds there's links to characters in the first book.

True to the guys previous work this's a truly amazing creepy short-story.. Set in school summer holidays two kids left alone the oldest won't let his younger brother play in their gang says its to dangerous so he sets off on his own adventure. At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded-up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It’s the place where Pete Simmons, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out. Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn’t been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says “closed, no services.” The driver’s door opens but nobody gets out. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. But two kids and a horse are the only living things left...unless you maybe count the wagon. With the heart of Stand By Me and the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81 is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs