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The Best of Gerald Kersh (Faber Finds): SSC

โœ Scribed by Kersh, Gerald

Book ID
100612603
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Weight
196 KB
Category
Fiction
City
London
ISBN
0571304486

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โœฆ Synopsis

Preface by Simon Raven -- Neither man nor dog -- The devil that troubled the chessboard -- 'Busto is a ghost. Too mean to give us a fright!' -- Thicker than water -- The crewel needle -- The queen of Pig Island -- The sympathetic souse -- The white-washed room -- The ape and the mystery -- The king who collected clocks -- Clocks without hands -- Men without bones -- The Brighton monster -- Frozen beauty -- Carnival on the downs -- Teeth and nails -- In a room without walls -- The Oxoxoco bottle.;A collection of work from Gerald Kersh. Other works by Kersh include 'Night and the City' and 'The Angel and the Cuckoo'.

โœฆ Subjects

Short stories -- ukslc

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'[Gerald Kersh] is a story-teller of an almost vanished kind - though the proper description is perhaps a teller of 'rattling good yarns'... He is fascinated by the grotesque and the bizarre, by the misfits of life, the angry, the down-and-outs and the damned. A girl of eight commits a murder. Some