Paul John Hausleben

The Return of the Quiet Stranger in the Black Hat

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Produktbeschreibung

The master storyteller, Paul John Hausleben's most mysterious character, returns in another collection of short stories. Once again, the Quiet Stranger in the Black Hat returns in a new set of captivating adventures, along with a new cast of characters. This collection of short stories runs the gamut from romance to crime fighting and a few other subjects in between! Truly, the stranger seems omnipresent in his adventures, and these stories display the author's versatility as a writer in creating fictional fantasy stories laced with elements of real-life issues and situations. Amongst all the gems of stories, this collection contains two of the author's most popular short stories. In the classic story, "When the Night Closes In," the mysterious stranger teams with a hard-boiled NJ district attorney to track down criminals, ensure justice and help to solve complex crimes. When life seems hopeless, he magically appears to shape the lives of the lost, and intervene in the lives of people who need him the most. The story introduces the characters of Charles "Chuck" McCracken as a no-nonsense, hard-drinking, hands-on crime fighting district attorney and his faithful bodyguard, the dashing and courageous James "Jimmy" Reeves. In the story "The Circle of Life," the author touches upon the tragedy of dementia and Alzheimer's disease with a subject near and dear to the author's heart and his own experiences. The stranger arrives to assist an old machinist afflicted with dementia as the old man regains his dignity, his memories once more for one last delve into his trade, and the old machinist creates his greatest piece ever. The mysterious stranger says very little, but when he does speak and act, the words are powerful and his actions unforgettable. Yet the question remains? Is the quiet stranger a superhero, a ghost, an angel, a time traveler from the past or the future, or perhaps he might be all of those things and much more? Mr. Hausleben is not telling, instead, he leaves it to the reader to determine in his or her own way! There are no zombies, no end of the world, and no wild invasions of aliens in these stories. Instead, the reader will enjoy fantasy stories of a different type. These are stories that will make you wish that somewhere in this mysterious world, the Quiet Stranger in the Black Hat really exists and that he is watching from within the shadows of our world to help make this world a better place.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Touchladybirdlucky Studios
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780990697961
• ISBN-10: 0990697967
• Artikelnr.: 57986292

Autorenporträt

Way back in time, when the dinosaurs first died off, at the ripe old age of sixteen, Paul John Hausleben, wrote three stories for a creative writing class in high school. Enrolled in a vocational school, and immersed in trade courses and apprenticeship, left little time for writing ventures but PJH wrote three exceptional and entertaining stories. Paul John Hausleben's stories caught the eye of two English teachers in the college-preparatory academic programs and they pulled the author out of his basic courses and plopped him in advanced English and writing courses. One of the English teachers had immense faith in Paul's talents, and she took PJH's stories, helped him brush them up and submitted them to a periodical for publication. To PJH's astonishment, the periodical published all three of the stories and sent him a royalty check for fifty dollars and . . . that was it. PJH did not write anymore because life got in his way. Fast forward to 2009 and while living on the road in Atlanta, Georgia (and struggling to communicate with the locals who did not speak New Jersey) for his full-time job, PJH took a part-time job writing music reviews for a progressive rock website, and that gig caused the writing bug to bite PJH once more. He recalled those old stories and found the old manuscripts hiding in a dusty box. After some doodling around with them, PJH decided to revisit them. Two stories became the nucleus for the anthology now known as, The Time Bomb in The Cupboard and Other Adventures of Harry and Paul. The other story became the anchor story for the collection known as, The Christmas Tree and Other Christmas Stories, Tales for a Christmas Evening. Now, many years and over thirty-five published works later, along with countless blogs and other work, PJH continues to write. Where and when it stops, only the author really knows.

On the other hand, does he really know?

If you ask Paul John Hausleben, he will tell you that he is not an author, he is just a storyteller. Other than writing, among many careers both paid and unpaid, he is a former semi-professional hockey goaltender, a music fan and music reviewer, an avid sports fan, photographer and amateur radio operator.