Shane, R.: Pentalogy ©2006 R. Shane, Leaping Lizards Publishing, FL Hardcover, no dj, 457 pages ISBN: 1-932086-83-8

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Comments: A Collected Work of Five Volumes of Shane's books, One, Two, Three, Four, and Five. Also available as an eBook from Lybrary.com.

Contents (from book ToC):

9 Introduction: “What About Shane?” (Robert E. Neale)
11 Preface
13 Foreword

17 ONE
17 Maybe They Were Just Unlucky
19 Having Writ
22 Nocturnal Transmissions
25 Amanda’s Great Magic Trick
28 Of All-Powerful Gods and Little Men in Big Buildings
31 Hand of Death Sword of Justice
35 Paying The Bill
37 A Cautionary Tale
39 The Tale of Cedar Creek
42 November Rain
45 God and the Scientist
46 Cassandra’s Quandary Revisited
51 The True Cost of Money
55 The First of the Last
58 Behind The Times
62 Squeal of Fortune!
66 Dark Channel
69 Through A Glass Darkly
74 With A Little Help From A Friend
78 Message in a Bottle
80 Times Change
82 Big Bargain!
85 Signed William Randolph Hearst
90 Phasing!

107 TWO
107 In Opposition
109 Someone Has To Do It
110 Dede’s Revenge
112 “It Was A Picture From Life!”
121 The Revelation of the Great Cabal
123 Mathematically Challenged
125 Never A Winner Lost
132 Talking Rocks
136 Articles of Faith
138 The Sacred and The Profane
141 The Sting
150 Theory of Irrelevancy
154 The Bar Joke
157 Rollin’ Bones
162 The Quick and the Presumed Dead
163 Unk’s Day Job
166 Encapsulated Revelation
176 All It Takes
179 Wonder of Wonders
183 An Inoffensive Little Trick

193 THREE
193 The Measure of a Man
196 Pop Quiz
202 Burnt Too
206 The Return of Casanova More or Less
211 Coins for the Ferryman
215 The Forgotten
219 Pennies Back and Forth
222 Slasher: The Day After the Night Before the Dawn of the Nightmare of a Texas Chainsaw Psyxco Maniac Part 17
229 Carney Days
241 Something Special
245 The Night + Mare
249 Weeping An Old Man
254 Life3
262 The End of the World as We Know It
271 Is There A Death So Good?
276 The Stolen Smell

283 FOUR
283 The God-Of-The-Month Club
287 Imagining Things
296 The Child’s Game With Secret Rules
302 Picking the Pocket of Aleister Crowley
311 Slick Black Cadillac
318 A Line Much Too Thin
324 Greedy Little Bastards
332 Bad Dreams
339 And the Little Voices Say…
344 The Miser’s Nightmare
353 Newton Versus Einstein Versus Quantum Magics
360 Walking Through the Boneyard
365 The Only Way Out

371 FIVE
371 The Lucky Coin That Wasn’t and Is
379 Taken
382 The Devil’s Pasteboards
388 Murder Will Out
395 Love in Hell
401 The Strange Revenge of the Celestial Wu
409 A Little Piece of Histrionics
416 Love of Money at the Root
422 Always More Mystery
427 Bones Modern and Cold
435 When The Eye of the Beholder Doesn’t
440 Liberated by the Ties That Bind
446 The Unkindest Cut of All
451 A Final Word

Addenda
Appendix I: Effects by Methodology
Appendix II: Effects by Prop
Appendix III: Effects by Category
Bibliography