STREET MAGIC by William Hammett

My novel Street Magic is now on sale at Amazon's Kindle store.  You may see the cover and click to purchase the book in the right navigation column.  It is horror/suspense.

I wrote the novel many years ago after reading Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.  It's Bradbury's best, in my opinion, and unlike his other novels and short stories, it isn't really science fiction, although some might say it has that kind of flavor.  Regardless of the genre, I was amazed at the prose style Bradbury used.  Its sentence parameters are loose, and the style is highly lyrical, almost poetic.  The words flow effortlessly from beginning to end in Bradbury's classic tale of good against evil.  That's when it occurred to me to write Street Magic, my own humble effort to pen a lyrical tale of good against evil.

It was fun to write.  I let the first draft flow without any revision and then went back over it many times over the years adjusting various sentences.  There comes a time, however, when a writer has to give birth to his child, and so I decided, thanks to the good people at Word Wrangler Publishing, to put Street Magic out there, where it will now have a life of its own.  Like all parents, I hope that life will treat my offspring kindly, but we'll see.  There's a time to let go.

The book description is as follows:

The people of Pace, Indiana are jolted from their routine small-town lives when a street magician, Lark the Magnificent, begins staging one incredible show after another.  There is seemingly nothing that the man in an electric-blue suit can't do, from levitating above the sidewalk to making it snow on a sunny day.

But Joe Bailey, meek bachelor and town archivist, notices that things in Pace aren't quite right.  People are going missing, stores are closing, and some one--or some thing--is living in a row of abandoned homes on River Road.

In this homage to Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, William Hammett has written a chilling tale in lyrical prose about the evil locked behind the doors of small-town America, an evil that Joe Bailey will have to combat with his own brand of street magic.

The book was published by Word Wrangler Publishing on March 24, 2015.  Thanks, Barbara, for all of your hard work on this one.

And thanks as always to my readers and friends for stopping by.

~William Hammett

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