Synopses & Reviews
Welcome to Christopher Fowler's ninth collection of stories of urban dread, designed to fill your waking dreams with dark fears and even darker laughter.
A journalist spends a nerve-wracking weekend in the company of Nazis. A tropical holiday takes a nasty turn thanks to a troupe of monkeys, and a waitress challenges a sinister customer in a night restaurant. A tailor plots to escape his execution, London is overrun with rats, serial killers fall in love, and revenge backfires on the unfaithful. As our lives and deaths grow ever stranger, housewives, students, and executives all find themselves in situations that become increasingly disturbing.
Fowler's powerful narratives are subtly affecting and will make you think twice about the way you look at the world around you.
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"Fowler hides a powerful narrative in a slyly experimental text to superb effect." Time Out (London)
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"Gothic stories in a realist vein....Ian McEwan used to mine a similar seam. Fowler does it better." Arena (U.K.)
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"These deadly funny stories are like short sharp shocks of adrenalin administered to the unsuspecting in the dead of night." Metro (U.K.)
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"Written from a confidently self-defined position on the margins of the literary mainstream, Christopher Fowler's short stories present a world of grim surprises and oddball, offbeat situations." Jerome de Groot, BookMunch (U.K.)
Synopsis
As our lives and deaths grow ever stranger, housewives, students and executives all find themselves in situations that become increasingly disturbing. Strange things don't only happen when you are asleep. Fowler's powerful narratives are subtly affecting and will make you think again about the way you look at the world around you.
Synopsis
As our lives and deaths grow ever stranger, housewives, students and executives all find themselves in situations that become increasingly disturbing. Strange things don't only happen when you are asleep. Fowler's powerful narratives are subtly affecting and will make you think again about the way you look at the world around you.
Christopher Fowler runs The Creative Partnership, a film promotion company in London. He is the author of 10 novels, as well as numerous screenplays and the collections of short stories Personal Demons and The Devil in Me.
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More raw meat for the discerning urban horrorphile.
About the Author
Christopher Fowler is the author of ten novels, as well as numerous screenplays and collections of short stories. In 1998 he won the BFS Best Short Story of the Year and three of his novels Roofworld, Psychoville, and Disturbia are now in production. One short story, "The Master Builder," became a CBS movie starring Tippi Hedren. Another, "Left Hand Drive," won Best British Short Film in 1993. Christopher Fowler runs The Creative Partnership, a film promotion company in Soho, London.