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Where Furnaces Burn

Joel Lane · 2012collection

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From the publisher's website Where Furnaces Burn: Episodes from the casebook of a police officer in the West Midlands: A young woman needs help in finding the buried pieces of her lover... so he can return to waking life. Pale-faced thieves gather by a disused railway to watch a puppet theatre of love and violence. Why do local youths keep starting fires in the ash woods around a disused mine in the Black Country? A series of inexplicable deaths lead the police to uncover a secret cult of machine worship. When a migrant worker disappears, the key suspect is a boy driven mad by memories that are not his own. Among the derelict factories and warehouses at the heart of the city, an archaic god seeks out his willing victims. Blurring the occult detective story with urban noir fiction, Where Furnaces Burn offers a glimpse of the myths and terrors buried within the industrial landscape.

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Contents

  1. 1My Stone Desireshort story
  2. 2Still Watershort story
  3. 3Morning's Echoshort story
  4. 4The Hostessshort story
  5. 5Blue Smokeshort story
  6. 6Beth's Lawshort story
  7. 7A Cup of Bloodshort story
  8. 8Even the Pawnshort story
  9. 9A Mouth to Feedshort story
  10. 10Quarantineshort story
  11. 11Black Countryshort story
  12. 12Without a Mindshort story
  13. 13The Sunken Cityshort story
  14. 14Incryshort story
  15. 15The Last Witnessshort story
  16. 16Dreams of Childrenshort story
  17. 17Waiting for the Thawshort story
  18. 18Stiff As Toysshort story
  19. 19The Victim Cardshort story
  20. 20Winter Journeyshort story
  21. 21Slow Burnshort story
  22. 22The Receiversshort story
  23. 23Wake Up in Molochshort story
  24. 24Point of Departureshort story
  25. 25Blind Circlesshort story
  26. 26Facing the Wallshort story