A Prayer for the Dying History & Criticism and unpublished stories that were

and unpublished stories that were absorbed into an author’s archive when they died

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An invaluable record of a stunningly or

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A Prayer for the Dying History & Criticism and unpublished stories that wereA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells of a horrible epidemic that is suddenly and gruesomely killing the town's residents and setting off a terrifying paranoia. Jacob Hansen, Friendship's sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, is soon overwhelmed by the fear and anguish around him, and his sanity begins to fray. Dark, poetic, and chilling, A Prayer for the