City Jitters

This is a collection of ten chilling tales of modern malevolence, each rooted in the everyday experiences of contemporary city life. The city consists only of car parks, nightclubs, taxis, bright pavements, laughing people, ringing telephones - but in its very ordinariness there lurks its greatest terror. Behind the most ordinary urban landscape lies a place where reality stops and nightmare begins.

Contents:

Left Hand Drive

Any Minute Now

Change for the Sky Master

Perry in Seraglio

Tigertooth

Vanishing Acts

Her Finest Hour

The Cleansing

What Is Wrong with This Picture?

Loaded Blanks

Epilogue

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Release date: 1986

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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.