Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.
Chargement... Night-Pieces (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) (1935)par Thomas Burke
Aucun Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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 outre 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. "An artist for whom I have always entertained a great admiration ... This is a volume of really good short stories." - Gerald Gould, "Observer" "A master of the psychology of fear, of the torments of the crime-burdened conscience ... 'The Lonely Inn' is close to a masterpiece." - "The American Mercury" "His talent is as great as ever ... in even the eeriest of them there is more fascination than horror ... excellent." - "Guardian"" Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.912Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
Est-ce vous ?Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing. |
▪Miracle in Suburbia - An elderly man offers protection from harm if a young acquaintance performs a theft of an item previously stolen.
▪Yesterday Street - Burke deftly taps into the wistfully nostalgic psyche of many a middle-aged man, as Dominic eerily returns to his childhood neighborhood.
▪Funspot - A man who regularly traverses across the oddly named Funspot Street obsesses over ironically greusome things that could occur there.
▪Uncle Ezekiel's Long Sight - Uncle Ezekiel, otherwise a doddering "domestic pest", possesses an uncanny ability to see into the future.
▪The Horrible God - Mr Drinkwater, a collector of native bric-a-brac, purchases an idol, and subsequently receives messages portending that the idol will wreak a terrible vengeance.
▪Father and Son - The true nature of the relationship is seen after a father cuts off his son’s allowance.
▪Johnson Looked Back - A vivid, in-your-face profile of undiluted fear from first sentence to last. Stunningly breathtaking and relentless!
▪Two Gentlemen - A short but instructive study of human nature.
▪The Black Courtyard - A propulsive tale of encroaching fear, as Perrace is haunted by a particular courtyard: "an organism of blackness whose tendrils almost throttled the breath."
▪The Gracious Ghosts - Burke delivers a novel ghost story here; why the two appear and then disappear marks an interesting twist in the genre.
▪Jack Wapping - A day in the (supremely discontented, but resignedly contented) life of a workingman.
▪One Hundred Pounds - That being the amount of an inheritance Granpa Ben has received, and promised eventually to young Bertie, the one person he trusts.
▪The Man Who Lost His Head - In a midlife crisis moment, Peter Smothe wishes for a new life, and sets off to find it.
▪Murder Under the Crooked Spire - The mystery of this murder lies not in whodunit, but rather how was the murderer found out. And for good measure, Burke poses one last question which the reader alone must deduce.
▪The Lonely Inn - A pair of gents new to the area happen upon a dilapidated inn, where the patrons act strangely suspicious of them.
▪The Watcher - A short but powerful tale of a small-time burglar who knows where the loot is kept in his target, a shabby little shop.
▪Events at Wayless-Wagtail - A clairvoyant seeks to intervene and avert a future murder.
▪The Hollow Man - A man compelled by an unseen force travels from Africa to London for an extended visit to an old friend from fifteen years past. ( )