Perhaps no writer of the early 20th century had a better knowledge of London than Thomas Burke (1886-1945), and his collection Night-Pieces(1935) contains eighteen of his most haunting tales of that immense citys dark back alleys, shadowy courts, and mysterious houses. In Burkes London, anything might happen. You might turn round a corner and find yourself back in your childhood. A casual drink with a stranger might end with youquite literallylosing your head. That pale, slightly sinister-looking man sitting across the restaurant might be a murdered corpse, returned from the dead. And those footsteps you hear following you as you walk along a foggy street, faintly lit by gaslight . . . well, lets just say you had better not look behind you . . . ? A groundbreaking and undeservedly neglected volume, Night-Piecescontains a wide variety of weird and outré tales, ranging from stories of crime and murder to tales of ghosts, zombies, and the supernatural. This is the first reprint of Burkes collection since its original publication and reproduces the jacket art of the first British edition.
- | Author: Thomas Burke
- | Publisher: Valancourt Books
- | Publication Date: Jan 05, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 168 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1943910219
- | ISBN-13: 9781943910212
- Author:
- Thomas Burke
- Publisher:
- Valancourt Books
- Publication Date:
- Jan 05, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 168 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1943910219
- ISBN-13:
- 9781943910212