Novels by Glen Bradley
The world is your oyster. Open it.
The Books
three novels, three distinctive worldsA puppet that walks by itself, a house with a heartbeat and a pack under the moon.
STRINGS COUNTED TWICE
Strings — Book One
Luigi Stagnetti is fifty-seven, the finest marionettist working at the very bottom of the market, heir to a stage his father painted and nine puppets older than anyone can say. But one of them — the smallest, the Bambino, the one with real hair — does not always wait to be moved. A novel of craft, inheritance, and the things a family hands down without ever speaking of them.
Anyone can make a puppet move. A walk is different. A walk is weight.
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Western Wolves
Second planned release
Arizona Territory, 1882. After a bank robbery leaves Tony Mandalay wounded, his brother Pete hides him in a canyon cave. Something ancient is waiting there. A western horror novel of brotherhood, guilt, and the cost of bringing someone home.
In the canyon you don't die of the bite. You die of the moon.
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The Little Lights
The House on Blackwood Lane
Every child in Bridgewater inherits the dare: touch the gate of the house on Blackwood Lane and live to tell it. When seven-year-old Tommy Aldridge — teller of magnificent lies — puts his hand flat on the iron, something very old looks up and takes his name. Inside, Eleanor Vance has one last bargain to make: seven bright and unspent lights, one terrible autumn, and an eternity that never has to feed again.
Everything in this world is bought, girl, and everything is paid for.
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The Author
Praise
first whispers from early readers“A town that has made not-looking into a civic virtue, and a house that rewards the habit. I read the last hundred pages with every light in the house on.”
“Crossed pistols, a red canyon, and a wolf that stands like a man. The western has been waiting for this one.”
“Anyone can make a puppet move; Bradley makes you believe there is a floor under him. Quiet, devastating, and unexpectedly frightening.”
“Three very different books, one unmistakable hand. The world is your oyster — open it.”
The Tide Letter
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