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Nightshade and Damnations (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954321267
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Nightshade and Damnations (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) written by Gerald Kersh and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expedition in South America uncovers a terrifying race of men without bones who literally suck the life out of their prey. A man in 20th-century London makes a horrifying discovery about a monster found off the coast of Brighton in 1745. A sea captain goes ashore on a deserted island and finds what seem to be the bones of a previously unknown species of monster, only to learn that the bones tell a much more tragic tale than he could ever have imagined. A war correspondent meets a soldier who claims to be 438 years old. These are the plots of just a few of the weird tales you will find in this book. Gerald Kersh (1911-1968) was a brilliant and inventive writer acclaimed in his time for his gritty novels of London life and his often bizarre short fiction, but he has unfortunately become neglected since his death. This volume includes an introduction by award-winning science fiction author Harlan Ellison, who also selected the eleven stories that appear in this collection and which represent the very best of Kersh's short fiction. "No mortal can write this well." - Harlan Ellison "Sometimes funny, sometimes nightmarish, always first-class entetainment." - The New York Times "Kersh had a wild imagination matched by a vivid, near-hallucinatory style ... the cumulative impact of his short stories is horrific in the extreme." - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural

Nightshade and Damnations

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939140159
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Nightshade and Damnations written by Gerald Kersh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No mortal can write this well." - Harlan Ellison "Kersh has a strange, perverted sense of genius. And how he can write." - Virginia Kirkus "Gerald Kersh had a wild imagination matched by a vivid, near-hallucinatory style. Many of his concepts are so original that they blur the distinction between fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and horror, but the cumulative impact of his short stories is horrific in the extreme." - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural An expedition in South America uncovers a terrifying race of men without bones who literally suck the life out of their prey. A man in 20th century London makes a horrifying discovery about a monster found off the coast of Brighton in 1745. A sea captain goes ashore on a deserted island and finds what seem to be the bones of a previously unknown species of monster, only to learn that the bones tell a much more tragic tale than he could ever have imagined. A war correspondent, none other than Kersh himself, is sailing to America when he meets a strange man who claims to be 438 years old. These are the plots of just a few of the weird tales you will find in this book. Gerald Kersh (1911-1968) was a brilliant and inventive writer acclaimed in his time for his gritty novels of London life and his often bizarre short fiction, but he has unfortunately become neglected since his death. This volume includes an introduction by award-winning science fiction author Harlan Ellison, who also selected the eleven stories that appear in this collection and which represent the very best of Kersh's short fiction. Includes: "The Queen of Pig Island," "Frozen Beauty," "The Brighton Monster," "Men Without Bones," "Busto Is a Ghost, Too Mean to Give Us a Fright ," "The Ape and the Mystery," "The King Who Collected Clocks," "Bone for Debunkers," "A Lucky Day for the Boar," "Voices in the Dust of Annan," "Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo?"

Neither Man Nor Dog (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941147726
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Neither Man Nor Dog (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) written by Gerald Kersh and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 37 stories by a master of the form features tales that are sometimes funny, sometimes violent, and sometimes weird and nightmarish: in short, it is quintessential Gerald Kersh. Kersh (1911-1968) published more than thirty books, including the noir classic "Night and the City" (1938) and "Fowlers End" (1957), which Anthony Burgess called "one of the great comic novels of the century," as well as hundreds of short stories which were once ubiquitous in British and American magazines. But though he has been championed by Angela Carter, Harlan Ellison, Ian Fleming, Michael Moorcock and others, Kersh has undeservedly fallen into neglect since his death. This is the first-ever reprint of "Neither Man Nor Dog" (1946), one of the author's scarcest volumes. Kersh's novels "Fowlers End" and "The Great Wash" and the short story collections "Nightshade and Damnations," "On an Odd Note," and "Clock Without Hands" are also available from Valancourt. "[B]rutal but highly talented ... at least one [story] is ... a little masterpiece, and all of them possess the virtue of being highly readable." - J.D. Beresford, "The Guardian" "[E]xplosive with violence . . . The best of them are very good. The unfailing fertility of his imagination is indeed to be wondered at . . . For entertainment of a strong kind, Mr. Kersh would be hard to beat." - "Times Literary Supplement" "Kersh tells a story, as such, rather better than anybody else." - Pamela Hansford Johnson, "Daily Telegraph"

Night and the City

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Night and the City written by Gerald Kersh and published by . This book was released on with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clock Without Hands

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clock Without Hands written by Gerald Kersh and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Secret Masters

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Masters written by Gerald Kersh and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On an Odd Note

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : New York : Ballantine
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On an Odd Note written by Gerald Kersh and published by New York : Ballantine. This book was released on 1958 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fowler's End

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : 20th Century
ISBN 13 : 9781939140487
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Fowler's End written by Gerald Kersh and published by 20th Century. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlan Ellison In the worst, poorest, most benighted corner of London is Fowlers End, one of the most godforsaken spots on the face of the earth. It is here that young Daniel Laverock, starving and nearly penniless at the height of the Great Depression, takes the only job he can find: manager of the Pantheon Theater, a rundown old silent cinema owned by Sam Yudenow. Yudenow, an incorrigible swindler and one of the great comic grotesques in English literature, at first seems merely an amusing old fool, but Laverock soon discovers he is actually a despicable rogue. And when one of Yudenow's schemes finally goes too far, Laverock and his co-worker Copper Baldwin decide to teach him a lesson with a grand scheme of their own, with hilarious and unpredictable results.

Spear of Destiny

Author : Trevor Ravenscroft
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 9780877285472
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Spear of Destiny written by Trevor Ravenscroft and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 1982-06-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the legendary spear which pierced the side of Christ which has been invested with occult powers. It tells the story of the chain of men who possessed the spear, from Herod to Adolf Hitler, and how they sought to change the face of history by wielding its good and evil powers.

Men Without Bones

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : Blackmask.com
ISBN 13 : 9781596545229
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Men Without Bones written by Gerald Kersh and published by Blackmask.com. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venture into this alarmingly convincing world, meet the horse whose stubbornness changed history, or the man damned to everlasting love, or the murderer who confessed... and confessed... and confessed. Learn, too the secret of the Mona Lisa's smile, or what really happened to Ambrose Bierce. And ponder, if you can, the case of Simple Simon, who lost the only important thing he had--and never even missed it. Lean back, relax, take a long look at the world of Kersh. You may never recover.

The Brighton Monster

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Brighton Monster written by Gerald Kersh and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Wash

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher : London, Heinemann [1953]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Wash written by Gerald Kersh and published by London, Heinemann [1953]. This book was released on 1953 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nightmares and Geezenstacks

Author : Fredric Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780553124569
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Nightmares and Geezenstacks written by Fredric Brown and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Best of Gerald Kersh

Author : Gerald Kersh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best of Gerald Kersh written by Gerald Kersh and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Randalls Round

Author : Eleanor Scott
Publisher : The Oleander Press
ISBN 13 : 0900891955
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Randalls Round written by Eleanor Scott and published by The Oleander Press. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BORN OF NIGHTMARES... Presented within are nine examples of the finest horror and supernatural literature ever written. Inspired by a series of dreams and nightmares, Helen Leys, writing under the pseudonym Eleanor Scott, crafted these stories of suspense and terror, atmosphere and dread, in 1929 - and never again wrote in this genre; Randalls Round has not been available in the UK since that year. Chilling tales of suspense, antiquity and sacrifice; spine-tingling stories of possession, ancestry, and evil. This collection of deliciously crafted, ghoulish tales are some of the most sought-after by aficionados of the genre and include the superlative 'Celui-la', 'At Simmel Acres Farm' and 'The Twelve Apostles'. Over 80 years have passed since their original publication and the passage of time has left their thrall undiminished; these historic, macabre tales unsettle the modern reader just as effectively as their predecessors. ""An excellent Collection and one that is very welcome back into print."" - Black Static "5 Stars - "Delightful English ghost stories"" "5 Stars - "undeservedly obscure"" "4 Stars - "A good, solid collection of tales for the ghost story connoisseur."" "4 Stars - "A tentacle, both slimy and hairy"" OTHER RARE, CLASSIC HORROR LITERATURE FROM OLEANDER TEDIOUS BRIEF TALES OF GRANTA AND GRAMARYE by Ingulphus (Cut & Paste 9780906672860 to search) THE HOLE OF THE PIT by Adrian Ross (Cut & Paste 978-0900891861 to search) STONEGROUND GHOST TALES by EG Swain (Cut & Paste 9780906672433 to search)

Crusade Against the Grail

Author : Otto Rahn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594777217
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Crusade Against the Grail written by Otto Rahn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation of the book that reveals the Cathar stronghold at Montségur to be the repository of the Holy Grail • Presents the history of the Papal persecution of the Cathars that lies hidden in the medieval epic Parzival and in the poetry of the troubadours • Provides new insights into the life and death of this gifted and controversial author Crusade Against the Grail is the daring book that popularized the legend of the Cathars and the Holy Grail. The first edition appeared in Germany in 1933 and drew upon Rahn’s account of his explorations of the Pyrenean caves where the heretical Cathar sect sought refuge during the 13th century. Over the years the book has been translated into many languages and exerted a large influence on such authors as Trevor Ravenscroft and Jean-Michel Angebert, but it has never appeared in English until now. Much as German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann used Homer’s Iliad to locate ancient Troy, Rahn believed that Wolfram von Eschenbach’s medieval epic Parzival held the keys to the mysteries of the Cathars and the secret location of the Holy Grail. Rahn saw Parzival not as a work of fiction, but as a historical account of the Cathars and the Knights Templar and their guardianship of the Grail, a “stone from the stars.” The Crusade that the Vatican led against the Cathars became a war pitting Roma (Rome) against Amor (love), in which the Church triumphed with flame and sword over the pure faith of the Cathars.

When Things Get Dark

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1789097169
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book When Things Get Dark written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today’s best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more. A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers. This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today’s leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Carmen Maria Machado, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand, Kelly Link, Cassandra Khaw, Karen Heuler, Benjamin Percy, John Langan, Laird Barron, Jeffrey Ford, M. Rickert, Seanan McGuire, Gemma Files, and Genevieve Valentine.