Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha do...(展开全部)

托马斯·W.汉肖（Thomas W. Hanshew，1857―1914），美国作家和演员，出生于纽约的布鲁克林。他十六岁时就登台演出，演艺生涯持续了一段时间后，他在伦敦与出版机构合作，开始了文学创作。其中，部分小说是他与妻子玛丽·E.汉肖共同完成的。他笔下最著名的人物是汉密尔顿·克里克侦探，这位侦探因为善于伪装而被称为“千面人”。

肯尼思•利布莱希特，就职于美国加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳的加州理工大学，是一名物理系教授，在那里他学习了晶体生长的分子动力学，专攻冰晶如何由水蒸气生长出来，本质上这就是雪花的物理学。他曾经撰写过雪花这一主题的很多书， 堪称雪花界的大师。

尼古拉斯•迈耶（Nicholas Meyer，1945－） 美国著名作家、编剧、导演。其导演、编剧作品有《星际迷航》系列（Star Trek II 、IV &VI）、《两世奇人》、《挽歌》、《埃及王子》等。 迈耶写过三部福尔摩斯续作皆获得巨大成功，其中《百分之七溶液》（1974）卖出200万册，成为国际畅销书，荣获英国推理作家协会金匕首奖（1975），并入选美国推理作家协会（MWA）的百佳经典书单（第65位），在历史推理榜上排名第三（第一、第二分别是《时间的女儿》和《玫瑰的名字》）。他亲自操刀改编的电影《百分之七溶液》剧本曾获奥斯卡最佳原创剧本奖提名（1976）。 《西区恐怖》是迈耶福尔摩斯续作系列的第二本，曾连续十一周位列《纽约时报》畅销书榜单。

尼古拉斯•迈耶（Nicholas Meyer，1945－） 美国著名作家、编剧、导演。其导演、编剧作品有《星际迷航》系列（Star Trek II 、IV &VI）、《两世奇人》、《挽歌》、《埃及王子》等。 迈耶写过三部福尔摩斯续作皆获得巨大成功，其中《百分之七溶液》（1974）卖出200万册，成为国际畅销书，荣获英国推理作家协会金匕首奖（1975），并入选美国推理作家协会（MWA）的百佳经典书单（第65位），在历史推理榜上排名第三（第一、第二分别是《时间的女儿》和《玫瑰的名字》）。他亲自操刀改编的电影《百分之七溶液》剧本曾获奥斯卡最佳原创剧本奖提名（1976）。 《西区恐怖》是迈耶福尔摩斯续作系列的第二本，曾连续十一周位列《纽约时报》畅销书榜单。

Labyrinth 1 is an intricate structure of intercommunicating passages, through which it is difficult to find one's way without a clue; a maze. They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms, which open out onto very different landscapes, and they have entered into a dialogue, which they cannot escape - a discourse defined and destro...(展开全部)

Illuminating the dark side of the American century, "The Monster Show" uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time, as well as horror's function as a pop analogue to surrealism and other artistic movements. With penetrating analyses and revealing anecdotes, David J. Skal chronicles one of our most popular and pervasive mode...(展开全部)

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but sociall...(展开全部)

A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. Reluctantly partnered with the brilliant but sociall...(展开全部)

A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. An...(展开全部)