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The Liar
Greg Kellogg is pretty honest for a liar. He’s lived in Versailles, New Hampshire ( yes) for his whole adult life, working as a handyman and telling little lies, the kind that mend rakes and chill beer and keep his lights on even when the power’s out.
Pastor Julie is new in town, and she and Greg seem to keep bumping into each other. Greg likes it that way. But when she brings him a job one crisp fall morning, they get drawn into a town an old lie and a string of deaths that might catch up to Julie’s troublesome daughter. Greg’s a damn good liar, but this job might call for some hard truths instead.
The Liar was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella.
Pastor Julie is new in town, and she and Greg seem to keep bumping into each other. Greg likes it that way. But when she brings him a job one crisp fall morning, they get drawn into a town an old lie and a string of deaths that might catch up to Julie’s troublesome daughter. Greg’s a damn good liar, but this job might call for some hard truths instead.
The Liar was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella.
67 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 6, 2018
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September 3, 2019
I found this in an old issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, which said the novella reads as "if Garrison Keillor wrote a Stephen King story," but I think that slights it a bit. This is a good old-fashioned ghost story. What really sells it is the narrator, who uses his skill as a consummate liar to rid a small New Hampshire town of a spirit who has a hangup about the date of November 5. A good read for Halloween or any other time you may want a fast scare in your reading.
December 9, 2021
A compulsive halloween read.
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