Cover Image: Michael Dean / Cover Design: Brett Cross (2005)(April 19) Trouble in Mind. ISBN 0-9582586-1-9. Titus Novella Series. Auckland: Titus Books, 2005. ii + 102 pp.
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Eyes of Laura Mars (31/8/99-1/6/2001 & 30/10-25/12/2000 / 30/8-1/9/04)
- The House of the Nightmare Count Cipher
- Grandmother Spiderweb collage
- Friends Dieb
- The Séance Ice-planet
- The Tower Room Doppelgänger collage
- Diary Entries Ars combinatoria
- Job’s Comforter Experiences not included in the book
- Protection Ten Days that Shook the World
- Dead Eyes All Save You
- Home Drit-sker
- Ereshkigal Goddess collage
Blurb:
Haunting can become a routine like any other.
Each afternoon, as Laura returned from school, it would begin.
First, a gradually growing sense of depression and unease as she approached the house. Then, stopping at that corner of the drive where the figure at the window showed (sometimes she would succeed in walking past it without looking up, but the eyes still bored into her skull; usually it was easier just to face them). Then through the front door, greetings to Gran at her table in the kitchen, and through to her room for homework. Usually the room would be disarranged. Little sculptures made out of pillows, bedclothes tangled together — sometimes more macabre touches: smeared on the window by sooty fingers …
LAURA YOU ARE MINE TO KILL
COME ON DOWN THE WATERS FINE
This double-story from the author of Nights with Giordano Bruno is an intense voyage into the life of a young woman and a serious reflection upon the art of novel-writing.
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