Vinyl Wonderland - Rigney, Mark
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"Vinyl Wonderland is a wonder. A Bradburyesque dark fantasy that's also a page-turning mystery, soaked in 80s nostalgia and classic rock-and-roll. There are more twists in this book than a Joe Jackson record. Brendan Purcell is a fabulous character, a wide-eyed narrator caught up in a sinister small-town nightmare, burdened with his own tightly-held secrets. Vinyl Wonderland is the best contemporary fantasy I've read it years. It is destined to be a classic." -- Todd McAulty, author, The Robots of Gotham "Splendid, inventive, compelling, and surprising, Rigney knows how to seize and hold his…mehr

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"Vinyl Wonderland is a wonder. A Bradburyesque dark fantasy that's also a page-turning mystery, soaked in 80s nostalgia and classic rock-and-roll. There are more twists in this book than a Joe Jackson record. Brendan Purcell is a fabulous character, a wide-eyed narrator caught up in a sinister small-town nightmare, burdened with his own tightly-held secrets. Vinyl Wonderland is the best contemporary fantasy I've read it years. It is destined to be a classic." -- Todd McAulty, author, The Robots of Gotham "Splendid, inventive, compelling, and surprising, Rigney knows how to seize and hold his readers." -- Howard Andrew Jones, author of The Ringsworn Trilogy and Lord of a Shattered Land Welcome to Vinyl Wonderland Think 11/22/63 meets David Lynch-- a young 1980s record-store manager mourning the death of his mother at Christmastime discovers a doorway that leads to an infinite wasteland of cast-off junk; once there, he discovers he can choose one item and one only: what he needs, or what he wants. It's 1984, and when record shop owner Karl Wickett suffers an unexpected stroke, high school drop-out Brendan Purcell finds himself in charge of Vinyl Wonderland. Having recently lost his mother to a freak accident, Brendan quickly discovers that Vinyl Wonderland's back door leads to a haunted, infinite world of cast-off junk and trash, where visitors can take one thing and one thing only: what they want, or what they need. Eager to help his mourning, alcoholic father, Brendan tries to harness the junk-land as a cure-all, but his best intentions backfire, and his father becomes marooned in the trash wasteland. All Brendan has left is one small totem salvaged from the world beyond the door. As he grows to adulthood, will it prove to be what he wants, or what he needs?
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Mark Rigney is a writer living and working in Evansville, Indiana. Over fifty of his short stories have found print in venues ranging from the literary (Witness, The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review) to fantasy and horror (Lightspeed, Cemetery Dance). His stage plays have been produced in twenty-two U.S. states plus Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, and Nepal. He is a member of the Dramatist's Guild and has won multiple national playwriting contests, including the 2017 John Gassner Award, the Panowski Playwriting Award (twice), and the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition. His published plays are available from Playscripts, Inc., Heartland, and Smith & Kraus's The Best Ten-Minute Plays, among others. He is married with children and collects (no, seriously) really old beer cans.