Gwendy's Magic Feather

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2019 by Richard Chizmar

Foreword © 2019 by Stephen King

Interior artwork © 2019 by Keith Minnion

Interior design © 2019 by Desert Isle Design, LLC

Previously published in 2019 by Cemetery Dance Publications

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First Gallery Books trade paperback edition January 2020

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Cover design by Anna Dorfman

Cover photographs: man © Frankie’s/Shutterstock; Feather © 1933bkk/Shutterstock

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

ISBN 978-1-9821-3972-8

ISBN 978-1-9821-3973-5 (ebook)