Nightworld (Adversary Cycle/Repairman Jack) (73 page)
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Authors: F. Paul Wilson
And beneath their feet, in the apartment directly below, a red-haired man with an ageless thirty-five-year-old body spoon-feeds applesauce to the twisted, empty-minded woman he loved so dearly and with whom he had hoped to grow old. A little girl, older than Glaeken, enters with a puppy in her arms. Glaeken embraces her. The Veilleur household has just expanded.
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WORLD
The preponderance of my work deals with a history of the world that remains undiscovered, unexplored, and unknown to most of humanity. Some of this secret history has been revealed in the Adversary Cycle, some in the Repairman Jack novels, and bits and pieces in other, seemingly unconnected works. Taken together, even these millions of words barely scratch the surface of what has been going on behind the scenes, hidden from the workaday world. I’ve listed them below in the chronological order in which the events in them occur.
Note: “Year Zero” is the end of civilization as we know it; “Year Zero Minus One” is the year preceding it, etc.
THE PAST
“Demonsong” (prehistory)
“Aryans and Absinthe”
**
(1923–1924)
Black Wind
(1926–1945)
The Keep
(1941)
Reborn
(February–March 1968)
“Dat Tay Vao”
+
(March 1968)
Jack: Secret Histories
(1983)
Jack: Secret Circles
(1983)
Jack: Secret Vengeance
(1983)
“Faces”
*
(1989)
YEAR ZERO MINUS THREE
Sibs
(February)
The Tomb
(summer)
“The Barrens”
*
(ends in September)
“A Day in the Life”
*
(October)
“The Long Way Home”
++
Legacies
(December)
YEAR ZERO MINUS TWO
“Interlude at Duane’s”
**
(April)
Conspiracies
(April) (includes “Home Repairs”
++
)
All the Rage
(May) (includes “The Last Rakosh”
++
)
Hosts
(June)
The Haunted Air
(August)
Gateways
(September)
Crisscross
(November)
Infernal
(December)
YEAR ZERO MINUS ONE
Harbingers
(January)
Bloodline
(April)
By the Sword
(May)
Ground Zero
(July)
The Touch
(ends in August)
The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium
(ends in September)
“Tenants”
*
YEAR ZERO
“Pelts”
*
Reprisal
(ends in February)
Fatal Error
(February) (includes “The Wringer”
++
)
The Dark at the End
(March)
Nightworld
(May)
*
available in
The Barrens and Others
**
available in
Aftershock & Others
+
available in the 2009 reissue of
The Touch
++
available in
Quick Fixes—Tales of Repairman Jack
ALSO BY F. PAUL WILSON
Repairman Jack
*
The Tomb
Legacies
Conspiracies
All the Rage
Hosts
The Haunted Air
Gateways
Crisscross
Infernal
Harbingers
Bloodline
By the Sword
Ground Zero
Fatal Error
The Dark at the End
Young Adult
*
Jack: Secret Histories
Jack: Secret Circles
Jack: Secret Vengeance
The Adversary Cycle
*
The Keep
The Tomb
The Touch
Reborn
Reprisal
Nightworld
Other Novels
Healer
Wheels Within Wheels
An Enemy of the State
Black Wind
*
Dydeetown World
The Tery
Sibs
*
The Select
Virgin
Implant
Deep as the Marrow
Mirage
(with Matthew J. Costello)
Nightkill
(with Steven Spruill)
Masque
(with Matthew J. Costello)
The Christmas Thingy
Sims
The Fifth Harmonic
Midnight Mass
Short Fiction
Soft and Others
*
The Barrens and Others
*
Aftershock & Others
*
The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling
Circus & Oddity Emporium
*
Quick Fixes
*
Editor
Freak Show
Diagnosis: Terminal
*
See “
The Secret History of the World
”.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
NIGHTWORLD
Copyright © 2012 by F. Paul Wilson
All rights reserved.
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ISBN 978-0-7653-2167-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 9781429948012 (e-book)
First Edition: May 2012
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