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LOST AMONG SHADOWS is an intricate 700+ page novel which, while it can be read wholly on its own, again features Irving Carlisle as its main character (as in STRAY NOT BEYOND).
span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Irving Carlisle thinks he’s got problems—roommate Willie Lee Raxxle’s continual self-indulgent impositions; boss Arthur Fenteen’s highly absurd expectations at HappyTown Toy and Novelty Co. But Carlisle, having let his cat go outside, as usual, one day in August, does not realize that his real problems are only beginning—difficulties that will soon threaten not only his home, not only his livelihood and legal status, but his very life.../s | |  | | Stray Not Beyond
A fantasy "quest" story set in modern times, STRAY NOT BEYOND is an adventure fraught with humor, horror, mystery and suspense--a satire steeped in the supernatural, with deeper undertones of meaning lurking below the text
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">When Irving Carlisle left his Pennsylvania home and headed south towards Otterwood, North Carolina, all he wanted was more "Suttlespyce (Number 17)"/span>—span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">the richest, rarest, most wonderful and elusive pipe tobacco in the world. It was going to be a long, strange, horrible time before he ever got back.../span>
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This novella centers around Billy Bonoke, a seventh-grade resident of Karlyleburg, Pennsylvania. Contains various autobiographical elements; both humorous and thought-provoking.
span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Seventh-grader Billy Bonoke buys an obscure pseudo-scientific paperback at a thrift store; as he reads it, the book entirely and drastically alters his world view, leading to Big Trouble--up to and including among the adults and authorities who surround and command him--/span>
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