{"product_id":"the-rim-of-morning-isbn-9781590179062","title":"The Rim of Morning","description":"In the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In \u003ci\u003eTo Walk the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, Bark Jones and his college buddy Jerry Lister, a science whiz, head back to their alma mater to visit a cherished professor of astronomy. They discover his body, consumed by fire, in his laboratory, and an uncannily beautiful young widow in his house—but nothing compares to the revelation that Jerry and Bark encounter in the deserts of Arizona at the end of the book. \u003ci\u003eIn The Edge of Running Water\u003c\/i\u003e, Julian Blair, a brilliant electrophysicist, has retired to a small town in remotest Maine after the death of his wife. His latest experiments threaten to shake up the town, not to mention the universe itself.“‘To Walk the Night’ and ‘The Edge of Running Water’ are elegant and serenely paced, and they’re light on both the overt shocks of a King story and the overheated proses of a weird tale by Poe or Lovecraft; Sloane’s manner is patient, gentlemanly. What terrifies us, finally, in both these books is the vastness of our ignorance of the universe.” —Terry Rafferty, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poised between the terrors of the old world and the quantum scientific leaps of the new, both novels are modern Promethean legends...Sloane pulls out all the stops to spin a diverting yarn, incorporating aspects of mystery, fantasy, science fiction, noir and horror, and yet his clear-eyed style is more immediate and far less mannered than the purple prose of that high priest of cosmic horror, H.P. Lovecraft.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"The Sloane book is distinguished not only by the admiring introduction from Stephen King, but by the second novel in the book, \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Running Water\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eEdge\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the great American horror novels, mysteriously overlooked and still extremely effective in its blend of witty, realist dialogue and overwhelming cosmic horror....Sloane’s measured prose and gift for describing nature and the supernatural make \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Running Water\u003c\/i\u003e a work of realism in conflict with awe….I can’t overrate Sloane’s work in the pantheon of American horror.”  —Naben Ruthnum,\u003ci\u003e National Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As the editor of two SF anthologies and director of Rutgers University Press, Sloane would easily have made a name for himself in the speculative fiction world even if he had not written these two tremendous novels. Reprinted for the first time in years, 'To Walk the Night' and 'The Edge of Running Water' blend SF and horror in a manner wholly unheard of when they were originally published in the 1930s….Sloane’s eerie, exquisitely descriptive prose is influenced by Gothic literature as well as contemporary scientific theory….These all-but-forgotten texts make excellent reading for any fan of classic SF or eldritch horror.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The reader intuits what is happening all along, but the presentiment won't prepare for how and when the key moments happen, even though the most horrible event is told to you in the first few pages…There is something Lovecraftian in the overall aspect and motif of \u003ci\u003eTo Walk the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, but as great as Lovecraft was, he never managed this sort of emotion and loss, combined with tension.” —Mikal Gilmore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The reissue of these two remarkable novels is long overdue. . . . I can think of no other novels exactly like these two, either in style or substance. My only regret is that William Sloane did not continue. . . . Yet we must be grateful for what we have, which is a splendid rediscovery. These two novels are best read after dark, I think, possibly on an autumn night with a strong wind blowing the leaves around outside.” —Stephen King\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With its witty dialogue, burnished glimpses of affluence and art, and eerily poignant ending, T\u003ci\u003eo Walk the Night\u003c\/i\u003e reads remarkably like a contemporary thriller… Like Shirley Jackson, Sloane masterfully describes the paranoia and close-mindedness of an isolated rural community when outsiders take up residence… After reading both of these elegant, disquieting novels, one can marvel that they escaped mainstream attention for so long and rejoice that they’re back in print.”—Elizabeth Hand, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Remarkable novels…unabashedly literary.”—Jonathan Sturgeon, \u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Age dulls our capacity for wonder . . . and we are still deeply grateful to any artist who can revive it within us. I love \u003ci\u003eTo Walk the Night \u003c\/i\u003efor the glimmering it gave me of this universe as older and stranger and more terrible than I can imagine, the vertiginous sense of the world turning under my feet and the awful abyss falling away overhead. And I love \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Running Water\u003c\/i\u003e because this book made me genuinely afraid not of death, but of the dead, a far more primal and magical fear. And because when I first read, after dark in an isolated cabin, Sloane’s description of the noise the unseen machine produces, it gave me an authentic case of the willies.” —Tim Kreider, \u003ci\u003eBaltimore City Paper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eTo Walk the Night\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTo Walk the Night \u003c\/i\u003eis not, as its title might seem to suggest, a mere ghsot story. Its central idea is at once less usual and more horrible, but what that central idea is the reader must be allowed to find out for himself. The atmosphere of tense, apparently unreasonable dread and fear has been well worked up, and the climax skillfully developed....Though the story might be truthfully described as an extremely tall yarn, the reader, breathlessly turning the pages, forgets his twentieth-cenutry incredulity until the tale is finished.\" --L. M. Field, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An absorbing and impenetrable problem, a group of finely developed characters, and a terrifying solution that fights its way up to the surface and makes you believe it.\" --N. L. Rothman, \u003ci\u003eSaturday Review of Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Worthy of prompt attention by all and sundry; two strange deaths, a most exciting batch of superscience, and a fantastic solution that should knock you cold.\" --Will Cuppy, \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald-Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A supernatural story that is neither sensational nor lurid, of an intelligence that borrowed human form and brought tragedy in its wake during two years on earth.\" \u003ci\u003e--Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a novel that has to be experienced, not described....this novel is still as believable now as i must have been back in the 1930s. It is a story that H. P. Lovecraft could have written.\" --Robert Weinberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Running Water\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Want to learn how to write a horror novel? Then read this book...It is told by a master writer, who didn't need tricks or distractions to fool his readers.\" --Robert Weinberg\u003cb\u003eWilliam Sloane\u003c\/b\u003e  (1906–1974) was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts.  After graduating from Princeton University in 1929 he enjoyed modest  success writing supernatural and fantasy dramas. By the end of the 1930s  he had published his only two novels, \u003ci\u003eTo Walk the Night\u003c\/i\u003e (1937) and \u003ci\u003eThe Edge of Running Water\u003c\/i\u003e (1939). During the 1950s he edited two science-fiction anthologies, \u003ci\u003eSpace, Space, Space: Stories About the Time When Men Will Be Adventuring to the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e (1953) and \u003ci\u003eStories for Tomorrow\u003c\/i\u003e (1954). Sloane taught at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference for more  than twenty-five years and was responsible for inviting many notable  writers, including John Williams and John Ciardi, to join the faculty.  In 1983 a collection of his Bread Loaf lectures was published as \u003ci\u003eThe  Craft of Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. For much of his career Sloane held numerous editorial  positions, including a stint at his own publishing house, and from 1955  until his death he was the managing director of Rutgers University  Press. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen King\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than fifty novels, hundreds of stories, and several works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his most recent books are \u003ci\u003eThe Bazaar of Bad Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of stories and novellas, and \u003ci\u003eFinders Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e,  the second book in a trilogy of novels featuring retired homicide  detective Bill Hodges. Much of his fiction has been adapted for film and  television, including \u003ci\u003eCarrie\u003c\/i\u003e, based on his first published novel, \u003ci\u003eMisery\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnder the Dome\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Shawshank Redemption\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300356313317,"sku":"NP9781590179062","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590179062.jpg?v=1767741244","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-rim-of-morning-isbn-9781590179062","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}