Personal Demons
A hotel offers a taboo service for its troubled clients. A young man must wind a thousand clocks before sunset. A vampire library attacks its readers. A shy young man loses a dog and discovers the cutlery of the Marquis de Sade. A lottery winner soon wishes he hadn't won. Deranged office workers take over a building. Incarceration, incantations, revenge, romance and the end of the world - twice. Personal Demons are Christopher Fowler's tales of the macabre, the fantastic and the wilder side of modern urban living. They reflect the rich and various literary talents of a writer called 'ghoulishly irresistible' by The Times.
Contents:
- Preface
- Spanky's Back in Town
- Dracula's Library
- Phoenix • novelette by Christopher Fowler
- Unforgotten
- The Man Who Wound a Thousand Clocks
- Inner Fire
- Wage Slaves
- Armies of the Heart
- Five Star
- Scratch
- Still Life
- The Cages
- The Grand Finale Hotel
- Midas Touch
- Permanent Fixture
- Looking for Bolivar
- Learning to Let Go
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Christopher Fowler
Christopher Fowler is the award-winning author of over thirty novels and twelve short story collections, and the Bryant & May mystery novels, which record the adventures of two Golden Age detectives investigating impossible London crimes. His latest books are the sinister comedy-thriller Plastic, the memoir Film Freak and the haunted-house novel Nyctophobia. Other work includes the War of the Worlds videogame, a graphic novel and a Hammer horror radio play. He has a weekly column in The Independent On Sunday. He spends his time between London and Barcelona.
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