PETER ATKINS

When Avis Llewellen is attacked late one night on the Bowery, her rescuer is unlike anyone she has ever seen…a mysterious man in evening clothes, top hat, a blue flower in his lapel, and a frightening capacity for violence.
He’s the Blue Valentine. But the Blue Valentine isn’t real.
Avis discovers he was the masked avenger of Strange Thrills, a forgotten pulp magazine of the 1930s, born from the imagination of writer Norbert Read…long abandoned to the crumbling pages of a bygone era. But Read now lies in a coma, and his infamous creation has somehow stepped out of those forgotten pages and into present-day Manhattan.
As Avis searches for the truth, she discovers another forgotten Norbert
Read story: “Big Thunder.” And soon the impossible becomes terrifyingly real. Because the Blue Valentine is not the only thing escaping from the world of imagination.
Something else is coming through.
Something far worse.
And if Avis cannot discover what has opened the door between worlds, New York may become the setting for one final story…