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Night-Pieces
| Alternate Title: | Night-Pieces: Eighteen Tales |
| Author: | Thomas Burke |
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Valancourt Books, 2016 D. Appleton & Company, 1936 Constable & Company, Ltd., 1935 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Weird (Horror) Weird (Fantasy) |
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Synopsis
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.
Contents:
- Events at Wayless-Wagtail - (1935) - shortfiction
- Father and Son - (1935) - shortfiction
- Funspot - (1935) - shortfiction
- Jack Wapping - (1935) - shortfiction
- Johnson Looked Back - (1935) - short story
- Miracle in Suburbia - (1935) - shortfiction
- Murder Under the Crooked Spire - (1935) - shortfiction
- One Hundred Pounds - (1935) - shortfiction
- The Black Courtyard - (1935) - short story
- The Gracious Ghosts - (1935) - shortfiction
- The Hollow Man - (1933) - short story
- The Horrible God - (1934) - short story
- The Lonely Inn - (1935) - short story
- The Man Who Lost His Head - (1935) - short story
- The Watcher - (1935) - shortfiction
- Two Gentlemen - (1935) - shortfiction
- Uncle Exekiel's Long Sight - (1935) - shortfiction
- Yesterday Street - (1935) - short story
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