Most Popular Books by Keith Donohue

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child comes a hypnotic literary horror novel about a young boy trapped inside his own world, whose drawings blur the lines between fantasy and reality. Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, ten-year-old Jack Peter Keenan has been deathly afraid to venture outdoors. Refusing to leave his home in a small coastal town in Maine, Jack Peter spends his time drawing monsters. When those drawings take on a life of their own, no one is safe from the terror they inspire. His mother, Holly, begins to hear strange sounds in the night coming from the ocean, and she seeks answers from the local Catholic priest and his Japanese housekeeper, who fill her head with stories of shipwrecks and ghosts. His father, Tim, wanders the beach, frantically searching for a strange apparition running wild in the dunes. And the boy''s only friend, Nick, becomes helplessly entangled in the eerie power of the drawings. While those around Jack Peter are haunted by what they think they see, only he knows the truth behind the frightful occurrences as the outside world encroaches upon them all. In the tradition of The Turn of the Screw, Keith Donohue''s The Boy Who Drew Monsters is a mesmerizing tale of psychological terror and imagination run wild, a perfectly creepy read for a dark night.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A haunting fable about identity and the illusory innocence of childhood that moves from small-town America deep into the forest of humankind''s most basic desires and fears. • "Utterly absorbing ... a luminous and thrilling novel about our humanity." —The Washington Post “I am a changeling—a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own....” The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at age seven by a band of wild childlike beings who live in an ancient, secret community in the forest. The changelings rename their captive Aniday and he becomes, like them, unaging and stuck in time. They leave one of their own to take his place, an imposter who must try–with varying success–to hide his true identity from the Day family. As the changeling Henry grows up, he is haunted by glimpses of his lost double and by vague memories of his own childhood a century earlier. Narrated in turns by Henry and Aniday, The Stolen Child follows them as their lives converge, driven by their obsessive search for who they were before they changed places in the world.

From the bestselling author of The Boy Who Drew Monsters and The Stolen Child comes a modern take on the Orpheus and Eurydice Myth—A Suspenseful tale of romance and enchantment In the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside. The next morning Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic at her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet, and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins the dual odyssey of Keith Donohue’s The Motion of Puppets: of a husband determined to find his wife, and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.

"A magical tale of love and redemption that is as wonderfully written as it is captivating . . . Angels earns its wings." –Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Margaret Quinn lives alone, quietly mourning the disappearance of her only child, who fled ten years earlier to join a radical student group known as the Angels of Destruction. On a cold winter’s night, a nine-year-old girl arrives on Margaret’s doorstep, claiming to be an orphan with no place to go. This child beguiles Margaret, and together they hatch a plan to pass her off as her newly found granddaughter, Norah Quinn. Their conspiracy is made vulnerable by Norah’s magical revelations to the children of the town, and by a lone figure shadowing the girl, who threatens to reveal the child’s true identity and purpose. Who are these strangers really? And what is their connection to the past, the Angels, and Margaret’s long-missing daughter?

Set in the bathroom of an old house just before dawn on a night in June, Centuries of June is a black comedy about a man attempting to tell the story of how he ended up on the floor with a hole in his head. But he keeps getting interrupted by a series of suspects—eight women lying in the bedroom just down the hall. Each woman tells a story drawn from five centuries of American myth and legend in a wild medley of styles and voices. Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking “the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder” (Audrey Niffenegger). Centuries of June is a romp through history, a madcap murder mystery, an existential ghost story, and a stunning tour de force at once ingenious, sexy, inspiring, and ultimately deeply moving.

Ancient heroes from Irish mythology and folklore come to life in the modern world in this dark, atmospheric story. At once a thrilling chase novel and a wry reimagining of Ireland’s oldest epic, it is sure to enthrall readers of Neil Gaiman and Cassandra Khaw. Everybody is after the girl in the bog. One morning in a field in Connemara, a farmer unearths the body of a young woman, two thousand years old, preserved under layers of peat. Later that evening, she awakens in unfamiliar modern Ireland, ripping a hole through space and time and setting awhirl old animosities and long-held grudges. Shadowy figures follow her from the pagan past, and each emerges with a claim on the girl from the bog. With help from a trio of wannabe teenage witches, she goes on the run. Joining in the chase is an American archaeologist who wants to keep the discovery for herself and two befuddled farmers trapped in the plot. Hosts of fairies out for the night work their magic and mischief, and in the blue hour before sunrise, the saga unfolds in a battle for the ages. Part fantasy, part mystery, part thriller, part send-up, this comic and poignant love song to Irish literature and the gift of gab does not merely bend genres; it braids them into Celtic knots.

Stolen from his family by changelings, Henry Day is given the name "Aniday" by the ageless and magical beings, who replace him with another child who takes his place with his parents, a young boy who possesses an extraordinary gift of music.

Die Lebensgeschichten von acht Frauen aus verschiedenen Epochen verknüpfen sich zum amerikanischen Mythos Jack erwacht in einer Juninacht und wundert sich, wie ihm geschieht. Wenn er doch nur wüsste, wie er sich den Kopf blutig gestoßen hat. Doch kommt er kaum zum Nachdenken, denn in einem großen Wirbel tauchen nacheinander acht faszinierende Frauen auf, die Jack für ihr Schicksal verantwortlich machen wollen: sei es die junge Ureinwohnerin, die einen Mann heiratet, der sich in einen Bären verwandeln kann, sei es die Frau aus Salem, die für eine Hexe gehalten wurde. Mythologie, Geschichte und Fantasy sind in diesem phantastischen Roman zu einer großen Reise durch die Zeiten verknüpft . Keith Donohue schafft es mit seinem neuen Roman Sommernachtsfrauen, uramerikanische Märchen, Sagen und Geschichten aus fünfhundert Jahren in einem fabelhaft en Bogen zusammenzuführen.

Numa noite de Verão, Henry Day foge de casa e esconde-se no interior de uma árvore oca. É então que é encontrado pelos trasgos, uma tribo de crianças que não envelhecem e que existem na escuridão e em segredo. É levado por eles e baptizado de Aniday. Para sempre uma criança, Aniday cresce em espírito, esforçando-se por recordar a vida e a família que deixou para trás. Também tenta compreender e adaptarse à terra das sombras, enquanto a vida moderna chega não só à natureza mas também ao mito.No seu lugar, os trasgos deixam um sósia, um rapaz que rouba a vida de Henry no mundo. Este novo Henry Day tem de se ajustar a uma cultura moderna enquanto esconde a sua verdadeira identidade da restante família Day. Mas não consegue esconder o seu extraordinário talento para o piano (um dom que o verdadeiro Henry nunca possuíra) e as suas maravilhosas exibições deixam o pai desconfiado de que o filho que criou é um impostor. Enquanto envelhece, o novo Henry Day é assombrado por vagas mas persistentes memórias de uma vida noutro tempo e local, de um professor alemão de piano e do seu aluno prodígio.A Criança Roubada é uma história clássica sobre a infância que é deixada para trás em busca de uma identidade. Com a mistura perfeita de realismo e fantasia, Keith Donohue criou uma história de embalar para adultos e uma fábula literária de grande profundidade.

Há dez anos que Margaret não tem contacto com a sua filha Erica. Esta fugiu com um jovem anarquista e vive à margem da lei no Novo México, onde terá tido uma filha. Por isso, quando numa noite fria de Janeiro encontra uma criança abandonada à porta de sua casa, Margaret acredita tratar-se da sua neta. A pequena Norah destaca-se pela sua inteligência, bondade e cedo demonstra ter habilidades extraordinárias que encantam a comunidade. Afirma ser um anjo e consegue fazer duvidar os que a rodeiam. Mas quando uma carta de Erica chega às mãos de Margaret, toda a realidade que esta criara para explicar o sucedido ameaça desmoronar-se. Pois se Erica nunca teve uma filha quem será realmente Norah?

Return to Effham Falls: Tales of Lost Souls invites you back to a town where the ordinary meets the paranormal, and lost souls wander through mysteries that defy explanation. Beneath the quiet streets of Effham Falls lies the Well of Lost Souls, a place of dark secrets that has touched the lives of many. Journey through this collection of spooky, paranormal, and mysterious tales, where the line between the living and the lost is fragile, and everyone has a story. * Keith Donohue * Susette Quinn * Suzi Wieland * Robert D. Moore, Jr. * Alexander Vayle * Neal Romriell * Daniel R. Haynes * William R. Bartlett * Chris Stenson * Michael Pickell * Sarah Adams * Barbara Bustamante * Kaye Maxx * Dan McKay * Matthew R. Clark * T.J. Fier * Sadie Mendenhall * Scott Dyson * Tristan Belmont *

Korean edition of The Stolen Child. This is a coming of age story of a boy who was eager to travel far from the confines of home and his small body. In the process, he became a victim of his thirst for independence. But the wish to break away is not just in boys, but also in grown ups. This novel has garnered numerous accolades. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Keith Donohue escreve histórias realmente assustadoras. Não aquelas com sangue por todos os lados ou sustos premeditados para fazer o leitor pular da cama. O horror está nas sutilezas que são capazes de fazer a pele formigar e nos dar a certeza de que estamos diariamente interagindo com o sobrenatural. UMA LEITURA MONSTRUOSA: Jack Peter é um garoto de 10 anos com síndrome de Asperger que quase se afogou no mar três anos antes. Desde então, ele só sai de casa para ir ao médico. Jack está convencido de que há de monstros embaixo de sua cama e à espreita em cada canto. Certo dia, acaba agredindo a mãe sem querer, ao achar que ela era um dos monstros que habitavam seus sonhos. Ela, por sua vez, sente cada vez mais medo do filho e tenta buscar ajuda, mas o marido acha que é só uma fase e que isso tudo vai passar. Não demora muito até que o pai de Jack também comece a ver coisas estranhas. Uma aparição que surge onde quer que ele olhe. Sua esposa passa a ouvir sons que vêm do oceano e parecem forçar a entrada de sua casa. Enquanto as pessoas ao redor de Jack são assombradas pelo que acham que estão vendo, os monstros que Jack desenha em seu caderno começam a se tornar reais e podem estar relacionados a grandes tragédias que ocorreram na região. Padres são chamados, histórias são contadas, janelas batem. E os monstros parecem se aproximar cada vez mais. Na superfície, O MENINO QUE DESENHAVA MONSTROS é uma história sobre pais fazendo o melhor para criar um filho com certo grau de autismo, mas é também uma história sobre fantasmas, monstros, mistérios e um passado ainda mais assustador. O romance de Keith Donohue é um thriller psicológico que mistura fantasia e realidade para surpreender o leitor do início ao fim ao evocar o clima das histórias de terror japonesas. Um livro para fazer você fechar as cortinas e conferir se não há nada embaixo da cama antes de dormir. O MENINO QUE DESENHAVA MONSTROS receberá o tratamento monstruoso já conhecido pelos leitores da DarkSide® em junho de 2016. A história também ganhará uma adaptação para os cinemas, dirigida por ninguém menos que James Wan, o diretor de Jogos Mortais e Invocação do Mal.

Traditional Chinese edition of The Stolen Child. This is a coming of age story of a boy who was eager to travel far from the confines of home and his small body. In the process, he became a victim of his thirst for independence. But the wish to break away is not just in boys, but also in grown ups. This novel has garnered numerous accolades.

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The most full length critical and biographical studies of Flann O''Brien(the nom de plume of Brian O'' Nolan an otherwise inoffensive Irish public servant) tend to push asid e the leviathan of Cruiskeen Lawn, a commodious, encyclopedic work of some two million words and focus instead on his novels in English. Dr. Donohue in this important new study considers all of O''Nolan''s work including college writings, letters to the editor(raised to a form of national genius by F O''B.) and works in Irish. It draws upon the research and biographical material of Anthony Cronin''s No Laughing Matter, along with new research and criticism and takes issue with some of the conclusions reached in Keith Hopper''s A Portrait of a Postmodernist. By tracing O''Nolan''s development as an artist over time, this new study uncovers the relentless anatomist and post modernist in Flann O''Brien, a man of genius dissecting and exposing life and custom in mid 20th century Dublin. O''Nolan''s views on the arts and the novel are carefully discussed along with his relation to the literary Ireland of the deValera years.

Sju år gamle Henry Day blir kidnappet av noen mystiske vesener som bor i skogen nær hjemmet hans. Disse er ingen ordinære kidnappere. De er alveaktige byttinger hvis hemmelige samfunn er truet av stadige ødeleggelser fra det moderne forbrukersamfunnet. De gir Henry et nytt navn, Aniday, og de gir ham en gave - fra nå av vil han alltid være syv år. I tillegg har vesenene erstattet Henry med et annet barn. Denne byttingen, som er forvandlet til Henrys dobbelgjenger, må tilpasse seg et nytt liv og skjule sin sanne identitet for de nye foreldrene. Men foreldrene, spesielt faren, begynner å lure. Noe er galt. Etter hvert som årene går blir Henry Day stadig hjemsøkt av minner om et annet liv. Og både Henry og Aniday søker begge etter svaret på hvem de var før de erstattet hverandre. Det stjålne barnet er en klassisk fortelling om barndom og identitet.