The broken hours

Jacqueline Baker

Original title: The Broken Hours

earliest edition we have, 2014 Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2016 312 pages

In the spring of 1936, horror writer H.P. Lovecraft is broke, living alone in a creaky old house and deathly ill. At the edge of a nervous breakdown, he hires a personal assistant, Arthor Crandle. As the novel opens, Crandle arrives at Lovecraft's home with no knowledge of the writer or his work but is soon drawn into his distinctly unnerving world: the malevolent presence that hovers on the landing; the ever-shining...

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The Broken Hours paperback · 2017 · Talos · 312 pages · 9781940456874
Broken Hours edition · 2016 · Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated · 312 pages · 9781940456560
The Broken Hours hardcover · 2016 · Talos · 320 pages · 9781940456553
Broken hours edition · 2015 · Harpercollins Canada · 9781443425674
The broken hours edition · 2014 · HarperAvenue · 304 pages · 9781443425667

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