Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales from Four Members of the Macabre (Limited First Edition, Signed)
Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales from Four Members of the Macabre (Limited First Edition, Signed)
CROWTHER, Peter (ed.); Simon CLARK, Tim LEBBON, Mark MORRIS & Terry LAMSLEY. Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales from Four Masters of the Macabre. Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2005.
8vo. Original publisher's cloth. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket. 348 pp. First edition. Limited to 1,000 unnumbered copies, signed by all four authors and the editor on the limitation page. Now out of print.
These are not tales of outright horror but of unease, of the slow encroachment of the uncanny into the fabric of the ordinary, and the four British writers assembled here by editor Peter Crowther are precisely the right practitioners for that particular mode.
Simon Clark's Langthwaite Road follows a man who presides over a stretch of blacktop notorious for fatalities, and what he observes passing along it in the dark hours. Terry Lamsley's So Long Gerry imagines a student who discovers that his new flat has not been properly vacated by its previous tenant, and that something in the building is asserting a claim that predates any ordinary tenancy. Mark Morris's Stumps brings a malignant influence to the grounds of a newly purchased family home, expressed through half-glimpsed movement in the undergrowth. Tim Lebbon contributes a fourth novella that matches his customary atmospheric intensity.
In his editorial introduction, Crowther makes the case for subtlety and imagination as the essential tools of effective horror, and the four novellas that follow serve as an elegant demonstration of precisely those qualities. The Cemetery Dance limited edition, now out of print, was issued with signatures from all four contributors and the editor.
Fine. A pristine copy presenting as new.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000370
Original: $53.50
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CROWTHER, Peter (ed.); Simon CLARK, Tim LEBBON, Mark MORRIS & Terry LAMSLEY. Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales from Four Masters of the Macabre. Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2005.
8vo. Original publisher's cloth. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket. 348 pp. First edition. Limited to 1,000 unnumbered copies, signed by all four authors and the editor on the limitation page. Now out of print.
These are not tales of outright horror but of unease, of the slow encroachment of the uncanny into the fabric of the ordinary, and the four British writers assembled here by editor Peter Crowther are precisely the right practitioners for that particular mode.
Simon Clark's Langthwaite Road follows a man who presides over a stretch of blacktop notorious for fatalities, and what he observes passing along it in the dark hours. Terry Lamsley's So Long Gerry imagines a student who discovers that his new flat has not been properly vacated by its previous tenant, and that something in the building is asserting a claim that predates any ordinary tenancy. Mark Morris's Stumps brings a malignant influence to the grounds of a newly purchased family home, expressed through half-glimpsed movement in the undergrowth. Tim Lebbon contributes a fourth novella that matches his customary atmospheric intensity.
In his editorial introduction, Crowther makes the case for subtlety and imagination as the essential tools of effective horror, and the four novellas that follow serve as an elegant demonstration of precisely those qualities. The Cemetery Dance limited edition, now out of print, was issued with signatures from all four contributors and the editor.
Fine. A pristine copy presenting as new.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000370
