Vinyl Wonderland

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Vinyl Wonderland is </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>a wonder. A Bradburyesque dark fantasy </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>that's also a </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>page-turning mystery soaked in 80s nostalgia and classic rock-and-roll</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. 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.</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> It is destined to be a classic.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> -- Todd McAulty author </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Robots of Gotham</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Splendid inventive compelling and surprising </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rigney knows how to seize and hold his readers. -- Howard Andrew Jones author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Ringsworn Trilogy </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lord of a Shattered Land</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Welcome to Vinyl Wonderland</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Think 11/22/63 meets David Lynch</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-- 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.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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 </span><u style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Vinyl Wonderland</u><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Having recently lost his mother to a freak accident Brendan quickly discovers that </span><u style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Vinyl Wonderland</u><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>'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?</span></p>