Gang warfare on the streets of Temple Caneston. The Symes brothers are in town and ready to challenge the underworld leader, Victor Monk. Detective Sergeant Hazel Vernon finds herself having to work with a rookie detective constable. She also has to contend with crooked cops, a doctor with a shoe fetish and a pair of would-be psychics. Then the fat ninja turns up and Hazel's day just becomes a lot stranger.
Thirty four spooky stories by classic storytellers of the twentieth century - many from the 1920s and 30s - chill and excite in this classic collection. All of them demonstrate a subtle power to delight and chill at the same time as they explore those ghostly margins of the supernatural which are part of private experience as well as of popular tradition. Authors include Elizabeth Bowen, Angela Carter, Elizabeth Jane Howard, E Nesbit, Fay Weldon, Edith Wharton and Lisa St Aubin de Teran.
The Victorians, and later the Edwardians, had a passion for the weird, scary and richly embroidered tales of the bizarre and supernatural. In this deliciously chilling volume are many of literature's greatest names, spanning the Victorian era from 1839 right up the end of the Edwardian decade in 1910.
Sbírka duchařský povídek anglických autorek z viktoriánské doby. Antologii sestavil Richard Dalby. Tematicky navazuje na započatou řadu, kterou tvoří Skotské duchařské historky, Irské duchařské historky a Anglické duchařské historky. Richard Dalby nám předkládá další lahůdku v podobě povídek ze „zlaté éry" duchařských příběhů, jež byly většinou publikované v soudobých časopisech. Setkáme se zde s mnoha druhy duchů, jak se zlomyslnými a hrůzostrašnými, tak i se sympatickými a dobrotivými.
