![]() Edition: ISBN: 9781845298333 Year of publication: 2008 Sequence of author: The mammoth book of best new horror(№19) |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. Volume 19Author: Steven Erikson ín R Kiernan Joe R Lansdale Neil Gaiman Christopher Fowler Glen Hirshberg Nicholas Royle Michael Marshall Smith Joe Hill Tim Pratt Stephen Jones Ramsey Campbell Joel Lane Conrad Williams Kim Newman Mark Samuels Mike ODriscoll Tom Piccirilli Simon Kurt Unsworth Gary McMahon Simon Strantzas Marc Lecard Tony Richards David A Sutton Reggie Oliver Joel Knight Christopher Harman Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Maniacs, Thriller Read a fragment illustrations Annotation: Stephen Jones The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. Volume 19 MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH The Things He Said My father said something to me this one time. In fact he said a lot of things to me, over the years, and many of them weren't what you'd call helpful, or polite — or loving, come to that. But in the last couple months I've found myself thinking back over a lot of them, and often find they had a grain of truth. I consider what he said in the new light of things, and move on, and then they're done. This one thing, though, has kept coming back to me. It's not very original, but I can't help that. He was not an especially original man. What he said was, you had to take care of yourself, first and foremost and always, because there wasn't no one else in the world who was going to do it for you. Look after Number One, was how he put it. About this he was absolutely right. Of that I have no doubt. I start every day to a schedule. Live the whole... |