Author: Ramsey Campbell
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429949929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A former professor offers film critic Simon the chance of a lifetime—to write a book on one of the greatest long-lost comedians of the silent-film era, Tubby Thackeray. Simon is determined to find out the truth behind the jolly fat man's disappearance from film—and from the world. Tubby's work carries the unmistakable stamp of the macabre. People literally laughed themselves to death during his performances. Soon, wherever Simon goes, laughter—and a clown's wide, threatening grin—follow. Is Simon losing his mind? Or is Tubby Thackeray waiting for him to open the door back to the world? Ramsey Campbell has won a dozen British Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards and three Bram Stoker Awards. A new Campbell novel is an opportunity to delight in the craftsmanship of an extraordinary writer. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Grin of the Dark
Author: Ramsey Campbell
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429949929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A former professor offers film critic Simon the chance of a lifetime—to write a book on one of the greatest long-lost comedians of the silent-film era, Tubby Thackeray. Simon is determined to find out the truth behind the jolly fat man's disappearance from film—and from the world. Tubby's work carries the unmistakable stamp of the macabre. People literally laughed themselves to death during his performances. Soon, wherever Simon goes, laughter—and a clown's wide, threatening grin—follow. Is Simon losing his mind? Or is Tubby Thackeray waiting for him to open the door back to the world? Ramsey Campbell has won a dozen British Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards and three Bram Stoker Awards. A new Campbell novel is an opportunity to delight in the craftsmanship of an extraordinary writer. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429949929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A former professor offers film critic Simon the chance of a lifetime—to write a book on one of the greatest long-lost comedians of the silent-film era, Tubby Thackeray. Simon is determined to find out the truth behind the jolly fat man's disappearance from film—and from the world. Tubby's work carries the unmistakable stamp of the macabre. People literally laughed themselves to death during his performances. Soon, wherever Simon goes, laughter—and a clown's wide, threatening grin—follow. Is Simon losing his mind? Or is Tubby Thackeray waiting for him to open the door back to the world? Ramsey Campbell has won a dozen British Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards and three Bram Stoker Awards. A new Campbell novel is an opportunity to delight in the craftsmanship of an extraordinary writer. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Grin of the Dark
Author: Ramsey Campbell
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765319395
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A former professor offers disgraced film critic Simon the chance to write a book on Tubby Thackeray, a long-lost comedian of the silent-film era. Simon is determined to find out the truth behind the jolly fat man's disappearance from film--and from the world.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765319395
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
A former professor offers disgraced film critic Simon the chance to write a book on Tubby Thackeray, a long-lost comedian of the silent-film era. Simon is determined to find out the truth behind the jolly fat man's disappearance from film--and from the world.
The Grin of the Dark
Author: Ramsey Campbell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753516497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Once upon a time Tubby Thackeray's silent comedies were hailed as the equal of Chaplin's and Keaton's, but now his name has been deleted from the history of the cinema. Some of his music-hall performances before he went to Hollywood were riotously controversial, and his last film was never released - but why have his entire career and all his films vanished from the record? Simon Lester is a film critic thrown out of a job by a lawsuit against the magazine he helped to found. When he's commissioned to write a book about Thackeray and restore the comedian's reputation, it seems as if his own career is saved. His research takes him from Los Angeles to Amsterdam, from dusty archives to a hardcore movie studio. But his research leads to something far older than the cinema, something that has taken a new and even more dangerous shape...
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753516497
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Once upon a time Tubby Thackeray's silent comedies were hailed as the equal of Chaplin's and Keaton's, but now his name has been deleted from the history of the cinema. Some of his music-hall performances before he went to Hollywood were riotously controversial, and his last film was never released - but why have his entire career and all his films vanished from the record? Simon Lester is a film critic thrown out of a job by a lawsuit against the magazine he helped to found. When he's commissioned to write a book about Thackeray and restore the comedian's reputation, it seems as if his own career is saved. His research takes him from Los Angeles to Amsterdam, from dusty archives to a hardcore movie studio. But his research leads to something far older than the cinema, something that has taken a new and even more dangerous shape...
The Grin in the Dark
Author: J. A. Darke
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1496503740
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
One stormy night, a prisoner is on the loose. When Hamid starts seeting and hearing terrifying things, is it just a nightmare?
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1496503740
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
One stormy night, a prisoner is on the loose. When Hamid starts seeting and hearing terrifying things, is it just a nightmare?
Needing Ghosts
Author: Ramsey Campbell
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780712636858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Simon Mottershead is lost. He's searching for his family and for his identity as a published writer, whose talent is almost too big to bear. Needing Ghosts is one day in Simon's world. One day in which he doesn't need to image the worst - it's all around him.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780712636858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Simon Mottershead is lost. He's searching for his family and for his identity as a published writer, whose talent is almost too big to bear. Needing Ghosts is one day in Simon's world. One day in which he doesn't need to image the worst - it's all around him.
Children of the Dark
Author: Jonathan Janz
Publisher: Sinister Grin Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Will Burgess is used to hard knocks. Abandoned by his father, son of a drug-addicted mother, and charged with raising his six-year-old sister, Will has far more to worry about than most high school freshmen. To make matters worse, Mia Samuels, the girl of Will’s dreams, is dating his worst enemy, the most sadistic upperclassman at Shadeland High. Will’s troubles, however, are just beginning. Because one of the nation’s most notorious criminals—the Moonlight Killer—has escaped from prison and is headed straight toward Will’s hometown. And something else is lurking in Savage Hollow, the forest surrounding Will’s rundown house. Something ancient and infinitely evil. When the worst storm of the decade descends on Shadeland, Will and his friends must confront unfathomable horrors. Everyone Will loves—his mother, his little sister, Mia, and his friends—will be threatened. And very few of them will escape with their lives.
Publisher: Sinister Grin Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Will Burgess is used to hard knocks. Abandoned by his father, son of a drug-addicted mother, and charged with raising his six-year-old sister, Will has far more to worry about than most high school freshmen. To make matters worse, Mia Samuels, the girl of Will’s dreams, is dating his worst enemy, the most sadistic upperclassman at Shadeland High. Will’s troubles, however, are just beginning. Because one of the nation’s most notorious criminals—the Moonlight Killer—has escaped from prison and is headed straight toward Will’s hometown. And something else is lurking in Savage Hollow, the forest surrounding Will’s rundown house. Something ancient and infinitely evil. When the worst storm of the decade descends on Shadeland, Will and his friends must confront unfathomable horrors. Everyone Will loves—his mother, his little sister, Mia, and his friends—will be threatened. And very few of them will escape with their lives.
Spine Shivers
Author: J. A. Darke
Publisher: Spine Shivers
ISBN: 9781496564399
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Make sure you turn on a light, because these stories will chill you to the bone. From paranormal occurrences to downright horror, this book series has spooks to satisfy every reader. Complete with nonfiction back matter, writing prompts, and discussion questions, the shivers will still come even after you've finished reading.
Publisher: Spine Shivers
ISBN: 9781496564399
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Make sure you turn on a light, because these stories will chill you to the bone. From paranormal occurrences to downright horror, this book series has spooks to satisfy every reader. Complete with nonfiction back matter, writing prompts, and discussion questions, the shivers will still come even after you've finished reading.
Shades of Dark
Author: Linnea Sinclair
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553589652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Fugitives Chasidah "Chaz" Bergren and her lover, ex-monk, mercenary, and telepath Gabriel Ross Sullivan, are forced out of hiding when Chaz's brother is arrested for treason.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553589652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Fugitives Chasidah "Chaz" Bergren and her lover, ex-monk, mercenary, and telepath Gabriel Ross Sullivan, are forced out of hiding when Chaz's brother is arrested for treason.
Black Sun Rising
Author: C.S. Friedman
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1101464321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Over a millennium ago, Erna, a seismically active yet beautiful world was settled by colonists from far-distant Earth. But the seemingly habitable planet was fraught with perils no one could have foretold. The colonists found themselves caught in a desperate battle for survival against the fae, a terrifying natural force with the power to prey upon the human mind itself, drawing forth a person's worst nightmare images or most treasured dreams and indiscriminately giving them life. Twelve centuries after fate first stranded the colonists on Erna, mankind has achieved an uneasy stalemate, and human sorcerers manipulate the fae for their own profit, little realizing that demonic forces which feed upon such efforts are rapidly gaining in strength. Now, as the hordes of the dark fae multiply, four people—Priest, Adept, Apprentice, and Sorcerer—are about to be drawn inexorably together for a mission which will force them to confront an evil beyond their imagining, in a conflict which will put not only their own lives but the very fate of humankind in jeopardy.
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
ISBN: 1101464321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Over a millennium ago, Erna, a seismically active yet beautiful world was settled by colonists from far-distant Earth. But the seemingly habitable planet was fraught with perils no one could have foretold. The colonists found themselves caught in a desperate battle for survival against the fae, a terrifying natural force with the power to prey upon the human mind itself, drawing forth a person's worst nightmare images or most treasured dreams and indiscriminately giving them life. Twelve centuries after fate first stranded the colonists on Erna, mankind has achieved an uneasy stalemate, and human sorcerers manipulate the fae for their own profit, little realizing that demonic forces which feed upon such efforts are rapidly gaining in strength. Now, as the hordes of the dark fae multiply, four people—Priest, Adept, Apprentice, and Sorcerer—are about to be drawn inexorably together for a mission which will force them to confront an evil beyond their imagining, in a conflict which will put not only their own lives but the very fate of humankind in jeopardy.
Thieving Fear
Author: Ramsey Campbell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753518112
Category : Cousins
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Charlotte and her cousins have all made their way in life. She works for a publisher, Ellen cares for the elderly, Hugh works in a supermarket while his brother Rory is an artist. Then more than their jobs start to go wrong as something reaches out of the past for them. What has it to do with the summer night they spent on Thurstaston Common?
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753518112
Category : Cousins
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Charlotte and her cousins have all made their way in life. She works for a publisher, Ellen cares for the elderly, Hugh works in a supermarket while his brother Rory is an artist. Then more than their jobs start to go wrong as something reaches out of the past for them. What has it to do with the summer night they spent on Thurstaston Common?