02517cam a2200325 i 4500 296100776 TxAuBib 20151022120000.0 150423s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015014265 9781590179062 1590179064 DLC eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda Sloane, William, 1906-1974. The rim of morning [BOOK] : two tales of cosmic horror / William Sloane ; introduction by Stephen King. New York : New York Review Books, 2015. xi, 464 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier New York review books classics To walk the night -- Edge of running water. "In the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In To Walk the Night, Bark X and his college buddy Jerry Lister, a science whiz, head back to the old alma mater to catch a football game and to visit a cherished professor of astronomy. In the midst of the game, a strange inimical presence seems to grip the entire stadium; after, the two young men discover the body of their professor, consumed by fire; and before long Jerry is married to the professor's uncannily beautiful, young widow, Selena, and settled in the Arizona desert, where there's an unobstructed view of the stars--and of the darkness of space. In Edge of Running Water, Julian Blair, a brilliant electrophysicist, has retired to remotest Maine after the death of his beautiful young wife. After living as a recluse for years, he issues an urgent summons to a former student, Richard Sayles, now a well-regarded professor of psychology. At Setauket Point, Sayles finds a house shunned by suspicious locals and under the guard of an unpleasant and uncooperative housekeeper, Mrs. Walters. There is also stunning Anne, Blair's sister-in-law. Meanwhile, Julian, dead to the world, stays locked in his study. The Rim of Morning: two novels about the inescapable link between knowledge and sacrifice, the other, unspeakable, unknowable, unendurable side of the world we think we know. About the silence out there"-- Provided by publisher. 20151022. Ghost stories. Horror fiction. Science fiction. King, Stephen, 1947- New York review books classics.