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Gerald Kersh
Learn, too the secret of the Mona Lisa’s smile, or what really happened to Ambrose Bierce. And ponder, if you can, the case of Simple Simon, who lost the only…
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An extravaganza … fertile invention and forceful style … Mr. Kersh’s many admirers will undoubtedly devour this highly flavoured hotch-potch with avidity. - Julian Maclaren-Ross, Sunday Times[F]irst-rate Kersh, richly…
Harry Fabian has a dream to become the top wrestling promoter in London, but he needs one hundred pounds by the end of the week. Hunting for victims to blackmail…
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This collection of 37 stories by a master of the form features tales that are sometimes funny, sometimes violent, and sometimes weird and nightmarish: in short, it is quintessential Gerald…
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…
How easy Mr. Kersh makes it all seem! How admirably he sets the scene, the atmosphere … very neatly done. - The ObserverThree short, rough novels, hard-hitting, battering the…
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…
Fowler’s End is a bustling, ram-shackle community where bathtubs are considered effete. Daniel Laverock comes to the neighbourhood in search of employment. Thanks to his horrifying countenance, he wins a…
Gerald 1911-1968 Kersh
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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