The Spaces Between the Lines

A very special jukebox in the abandoned saloon of a dusty deserted town plays much more than mere tunes for two weary wanderers...

A travelling carnival in a post-apocalyptic world comes across the Earth's very last vampire...

A chair fashioned out of the wood from the original cross provides a comfort of sorts down the ages...

A lonely girl dreams of freedom, whatever the cost...

A one-time orphan embarks on a bizarre bus-journey with his newfound parents...

Two old men tamper with the dark arts and open a gateway that threatens the destruction of the world...

A grieving widower goes to great lengths to bring his wife back from the dead – only to find that she's brought someone else with her...

And a man uses a roll of magical tape to halt time and save his wife's life, unaware that there are things in this stopped-clock dimension that take a dim view of visitors...

Twelve more stories from the fertile mind of Peter Crowther, award-winning author of The Longest Single Note, Songs of Leaving, Lonesome Roads and the Forever Twilight SF/horror sequence.

Contents:

• Introduction by Jack Dann
• Stand-by
• We're All Bozos On This Bus
• Days of the Wheel
• Even Beggars Would Ride (with James Lovegrove)
• The Last Vampire
• Bedfordshire
• Conundrums To Guess
• Three Plays A Quarter
• Sitting Pretty (with Simon Conway)
• The Main Event
• Dark Times
• The Space Between The Lines
• Story Notes