Night-pieces: eighteen tales

✍ Scribed by Burke, Thomas

• Publisher: Valancourt Books
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 117 KB
• Series: Valancourt 20th Century Classics
• Edition: First Valancourt books edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: Richmond, Va.
• ISBN: 1943910219

✦ Synopsis

Miracle in suburbia -- Yesterday Street -- Funspot -- Uncle Ezekiel's long sight -- The horrible god -- Father and son -- Johnson looked back -- Two gentlemen -- The black courtyard -- The gracious ghosts -- Jack Wapping -- One hundred pounds -- The man who lost his head -- Murder under the crooked spire -- The lonely inn -- The watcher -- Events at Wayless-Wagtail -- The hollow man.;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 city's dark back alleys, shadowy courts, and mysterious houses. In Burke's 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 you - quite literally - losing 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, let's just say you had better not look behind you. A groundbreaking and undeservedly neglected volume, Night-Pieces contains 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 unabridged reprint of Burke's collection since its original appearance and reproduces the jacket art of the first British edition.

✦ Subjects

Short stories