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"No mortal can write this well." - Harlan Ellison "Kersh has a strange, perverted sense of genius. And how he can write." - Virginia Kirkus "Gerald Kersh had a wild imagination matched by a vivid, near-hallucinatory style. Many of his concepts are so original that they blur the distinction between fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and horror, but the cumulative impact of his short stories is horrific in the extreme." - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural An expedition in South America uncovers a terrifying race of men without bones who literally suck the life out of their prey. A man in 20th century London makes a horrifying discovery about a monster found off the coast of Brighton in 1745. A sea captain goes ashore on a deserted island and finds what seem to be the bones of a previously unknown species of monster, only to learn that the bones tell a much more tragic tale than he could ever have imagined. A war correspondent, none other than Kersh himself, is sailing to America when he meets a strange man who claims to be 438 years old. These are the plots of just a few of the weird tales you will find in this book. Gerald Kersh (1911-1968) was a brilliant and inventive writer acclaimed in his time for his gritty novels of London life and his often bizarre short fiction, but he has unfortunately become neglected since his death. This volume includes an introduction by award-winning science fiction author Harlan Ellison, who also selected the eleven stories that appear in this collection and which represent the very best of Kersh's short fiction. Includes: "The Queen of Pig Island," "Frozen Beauty," "The Brighton Monster," "Men Without Bones," "Busto Is a Ghost, Too Mean to Give Us a Fright ," "The Ape and the Mystery," "The King Who Collected Clocks," "Bone for Debunkers," "A Lucky Day for the Boar," "Voices in the Dust of Annan," "Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo?"… (plus d'informations)
This collection is perhaps best described as "macabre tales", rather than straight-up horror stories. All of them are exceedingly well-written and worth reading. Three stories, in particular, really stood out to me, and I would classify them as masterpieces of Twilight Zone- esque dark fantasy:
"Men Without Bones": This is a very eerie story, concerning some field researchers in a Central American rainforest who discover the title creatures. Quite unsettling, with a deeply chilling final paragraph.
"Voices in the Dust of Annan": A story about a man, who may or may not be a historian, who visits the ruins of an ancient city and interacts with its strange inhabitants. This one has a deadly sting in its tail.
"The Brighton Monster": This was my favorite. A man in postwar England comes across a 17th century account of a strange creature that shows up on the coast of Brighton, discovered by the local fishermen. A minister, author of the account, takes the creature into his home for study. This is simply a dazzling tale, with an immensely haunting and quietly powerful denouement. ( )
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The story of the Baroness von Wagner, that came to its sordid and bloody end after she, with certain others, had tried to make an earthly paradise on a desert island, was so fantastic that if it had not first been published as news, even the editors of the sensational crime-magazines would have thought twice before publishing it.
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"No mortal can write this well." - Harlan Ellison "Kersh has a strange, perverted sense of genius. And how he can write." - Virginia Kirkus "Gerald Kersh had a wild imagination matched by a vivid, near-hallucinatory style. Many of his concepts are so original that they blur the distinction between fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and horror, but the cumulative impact of his short stories is horrific in the extreme." - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural An expedition in South America uncovers a terrifying race of men without bones who literally suck the life out of their prey. A man in 20th century London makes a horrifying discovery about a monster found off the coast of Brighton in 1745. A sea captain goes ashore on a deserted island and finds what seem to be the bones of a previously unknown species of monster, only to learn that the bones tell a much more tragic tale than he could ever have imagined. A war correspondent, none other than Kersh himself, is sailing to America when he meets a strange man who claims to be 438 years old. These are the plots of just a few of the weird tales you will find in this book. Gerald Kersh (1911-1968) was a brilliant and inventive writer acclaimed in his time for his gritty novels of London life and his often bizarre short fiction, but he has unfortunately become neglected since his death. This volume includes an introduction by award-winning science fiction author Harlan Ellison, who also selected the eleven stories that appear in this collection and which represent the very best of Kersh's short fiction. Includes: "The Queen of Pig Island," "Frozen Beauty," "The Brighton Monster," "Men Without Bones," "Busto Is a Ghost, Too Mean to Give Us a Fright ," "The Ape and the Mystery," "The King Who Collected Clocks," "Bone for Debunkers," "A Lucky Day for the Boar," "Voices in the Dust of Annan," "Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo?"
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"Men Without Bones": This is a very eerie story, concerning some field researchers in a Central American rainforest who discover the title creatures. Quite unsettling, with a deeply chilling final paragraph.
"Voices in the Dust of Annan": A story about a man, who may or may not be a historian, who visits the ruins of an ancient city and interacts with its strange inhabitants. This one has a deadly sting in its tail.
"The Brighton Monster": This was my favorite. A man in postwar England comes across a 17th century account of a strange creature that shows up on the coast of Brighton, discovered by the local fishermen. A minister, author of the account, takes the creature into his home for study. This is simply a dazzling tale, with an immensely haunting and quietly powerful denouement. ( )