WELCOME TO MY WORLD
TWISTED TALES
They're a little dark, more than a little creepy. But that's a good thing, right? Certainly, I'm inspired by the masters. Maupassant, Aickman, William Hope Hodgson, Lovecraft, Ligotti. I don't claim their literary genius, but I fancy I know what I'm doing. It'd be disappointing if I didn't after all those degrees and getting on half a century of practice, wouldn't it?
Patasola
ISBN-9781310634666
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"I awoke this morning with the realisation that I am losing my mind."
Paris, 1893: Dr Gaston Daladier's friend and patient, the famous author G, has died. He has left Daladier a legacy - journals which start the good doctor on a quest. He begins to wonder, has he caught G's madness? Or is something else - something much more exotic - invading his dreams and corrupting his body?
A supernatural short story in the classical style. A tale of infatuation, possession and parasites set in beau monde Paris.
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Razorback
ISBN-9781310908859
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"If nobody tells you, how can you know? You can guess, you can assume, but without anyone to share your assumptions with, how can you be sure you've guessed right?"
The arrival of the twins tore a massive hole in Stephen's young life. Uprooted from London to a self-sufficient smallholding in Yorkshire, taken out of school, ignored by his mother, unable to bond with his submissive father, Stephen is truly alone. Then, just before he turns sixteen, his father falls ill and Stephen has to take on a man's role in the wider world. And now, for the first time, his assumptions are challenged.
A story of the weird and the unnatural.
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THE ANATOMY INSPECTOR
ISBN -9781370016679
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"There was something about Mr Stapleton. Something different. No doubt about it, Mr Edward Stapleton was a man apart."
Having first seen Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy in Westminster Hall, Tumbley comes face to face with him twenty years later when he, Tumbley, is a successful barrister on the verge of taking silk and Stapleton is surprisingly unchanged. It's the first rule of cross-examination: Never ask a question you don't know the answer to. After an evening with the singular Mr Stapleton Tumbley thinks that should be amended slightly. Never ask a question you'd rather not know the answer to."
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A Twisted Tale of burkers and anatomists and how Victorian law was changed to bridle Victorian science.
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Scaife & Scaife
ISBN: 9781370977666
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A Twisted Tale of fish and chips and brotherley love.
"He's a slippery one, is Rennie. He'd have you think that he's the righteous brother, that butter wouldn't melt. But he knew what I'd done all right. How could he not? We're twins after all. He knew what I'd done with Mother..."
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