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DRAGONFLY

Frederic S. Durbin

As Halloween approaches, strange things are happening in the basement of Uncle Henry s funeral parlor, where 10-year-old Bridget Ann (nicknamed Dragonfly) lives. Uncle Henry summons his friend Mothkin, a hunter, to investigate. Exploring the basement, Mothkin and Dragonfly find the door to a strange underground place known as Harvest Moon. There, the evil master Samuel Hain reigns over all. What follows is an epic adventure full of vampires, werewolves, Hain's cutthroat henchman, and the ever-present Jolly Jack—Hain's airborne, pumpkinshaped battle-cruiser, which leaves death and destruction in its wake. If Dragonfly ever wants to get home, she must journey through all the wonders, and horrors, that Harvest Moon has to offer.

Frederic Durbin returned to the United States after 22 years spent teaching English and creative writing at Niigata University in Japan. His novels include The Star Shard and A Green and Ancient Light as well as multiple short stories for adults and children.
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Published 1999-06-01 by Arkham House Publishers

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“Fans of Lovecraft and other horror writers will quickly learn to relish the name of Durbin hours of enjoyable reading. An outstanding story packed with many unexpected twists and turns.” —The Bookwatch "On the line with Clive Barker's THE THIEF OF ALWAYS. One thing is for sure, it will change some of your thoughts about Halloween." —Baryon "At heart this is an old-fashioned tale of good vs. evil made distinctive by its roots in childhood fears and its gothic scenery, like a quirky campire story made large, or a warper celebration of Halloween." —Locus "A lot of fun in many places." —Science Fiction Chronicle "As a horror-fantasy amalgam, DRAGONFLY is a marked success. Durbin is gifted with a prodigious fantastic imagination the verve, panache, and assurance with which DRAGONFLY is written make us marvel that it could be a first novel." —Weird Tales "A series of exciting and scary adventures in which the familiar tropes of the horror genre (vampires, werewolves, ghoulish creatures, sentient shadows) are used in clever and surprising ways." —Rambles “Durbin creates a world of awesome spectacle. Highly recommended.” —SF Reader

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