Darkness, Mist & Shadow - The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper: Volume 2
Edited by Stephen Jones. Introduction by Kim Newman. Cover art by Stephen E. Fabian (interior art by various artists).
DARKNESS, MIST AND SHADOW
THE COLLECTED MACABRE TALES OF BASIL COPPER
Volume Two
Compiled and Edited by Stephen Jones
"One of the last of the great traditionalists of English fiction."
Colin Wilson
"Britain's leading purveyor of the macabre."
Peter Haining
Collected together for the first time in two handsomely produced volumes from PS Publishing are all the supernatural and macabre short stories and novellas of legendary British writer Basil Copper.
Drawn from numerous collections, anthologies and magazines as varied as the award-winning Dark Terrors series, rare and collectible compilations edited by Stephen Jones and Peter Haining, and the author's own highly-prized books from Fedogan & Bremer, these two extensive collections contain more than four decades' worth of weird fiction from one of the genre's most renowned practitioners.
In this second volume you will find such classics of the macabre as 'The Candle in the Skull' (read over Hallowe'en on BBC Radio 4), 'Better Dead' the acclaimed Lovecraftian novella 'Beyond the Reef', 'Bright Blades Gleaming', 'Ill Met by Daylight', and the first printing of the author's preferred version of his final published short story, 'Voices in the Water'.
With an critical Introduction by broadcaster Kim Newman, Volume Two of Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper also contains original illustrations by Randy Broecker, Dave Carson, Les Edwards, Bob Eggleton and Allen Koszowski, along with a stunning cover painting by Stephen E. Fabian.
Contents:
- Introduction by KimNewman
- The Candle in the Skull
- Wish You Were Here
- Better Dead
- Beyond the Reef
- Death of a Demi-God
- Reader, I Buried Him!
- Bright Blades Gleaming
- When Greek Meets Greek
- Line Engaged
- One for the Pot
- In a Darkling Wood
- The Grass
- Riding the Chariot
- Final Destination
- The Obelisk
- Out There
- The Summerhouse
- As the Crow Flies
- Poetic Justice
- Ill Met by Daylight
- Charing Cross—Dover—Charing Cross
- There Lies the Danger
- Queen Bee
- Death of a Nobody
- Reflections
- The White Train
- Hunted by Wolves
- Storm over Stromjolly
- The Silver Salamander
- Voices in the Water
Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones (born 1953) is an acclaimed editor of numerous award-winning horror anthologies, and the author of several book-length studies of horror and fantasy films as well as an account of Lovecraft's early British publications. Jones has edited anthologies such as the Best New Horror series, Dark Terrors, The Mammoth Book of Vampires, The Mammoth Book of Zombies, The Mammoth Book of Dracula, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes and The Conan Chronicles, 1 and The Conan Chronicles, 2 by Robert E. Howard. Jones has also been co-editor of several books with Kim Newman, such as Horror: 100 Best Books and Horror: Another 100 Best Books with 200 essays on seminal horror books by acclaimed writers of this genre. Jones also edited Dancing with the Dark, a collection of stories of allegedly real life encounters with the paranormal by established horror writers. Jones has been the recipient of a Hugo award and many Bram Stoker Awards.
Darkness, Mist & Shadow
These two editions are now out of print but PS Publishing through their imprint Drugstore Indian have made the stories available as three Volume set.
Darkness, Mist & Shadow consists of two books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.