The Land of Laughs
Author: Jonathan Carroll
For schoolteacher Thomas Abbey there was no writer to equal Marshall France, a legendary author of children’s books who hid himself away in the small town of Galen and died of a heart attack at the age of forty-four. Tom and his girlfriend Saxony, wanting to write France’s biography, arrive in Galen, where they discover the writer’s fiercely protective daughter Anna is wai….Read More
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