The Rim of Morning Two Tales of Cosmic Horror [Paperback]

In the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. InTo Walk the Night, Bark Jones and his college buddy Jerry Lister, a science whiz, head back to their alma mater to visit a cherished professor of astronomy. They discover his body, consumed by fire, in his laboratory, and an uncannily beautiful young widow in his house—but nothing compares to the revelation that Jerry and Bark encounter in the deserts of Arizona at the end of the book.In The Edge of Running Water, Julian Blair, a brilliant electrophysicist, has retired to a small town in remotest Maine after the death of his wife. His latest experiments threaten to shake up the town, not to mention the universe itself.“‘To Walk the Night’ and ‘The Edge of Running Water’ are elegant and serenely paced, and they’re light on both the overt shocks of a King story and the overheated proses of a weird tale by Poe or Lovecraft; Sloane’s manner is patient, gentlemanly. What terrifies us, finally, in both these books is the vastness of our ignorance of the universe.” —Terry Rafferty,The New York Times Book Review

Poised between the terrors of the old world and the quantum scientific leaps of the new, both novels are modern Promethean legends...Sloane pulls out all the stops to spin a diverting yarn, incorporating aspects of mystery, fantasy, science fiction, noir and horror, and yet his clear-eyed style is more immediate and far less mannered than the purple prose of that high priest of cosmic horror, H.P. Lovecraft.” —The Seattle Times

The Sloane book is distinguished not only by the admiring introduction from Stephen King, but by the second novel in the book,The Edge of Running Water.Edgeis one of the great American horror novels, mysteriously overlooked and still extremely effective in its blend of witty, realist dialogue and overwhelming cl#/