Sharper Knives
14 illustrated, worst-scenario anxiety tales, laced with black humour. Everyday humdrum situations escalate into cataclysmic horror, in stories with titles such as "The Vintage Tablemat Collection of the Living Dead", "Norman Wisdom and the Angel of Death", and "Dale and Wayne go Shopping".
Contents:
- Introduction: Touching Darkness
- On Edge
- Norman Wisdom and the Angel of Death
- Dale and Wayne Go Shopping
- Contact High
- Last Call for Passenger Paul
- The Legend of Dracula Reconsidered as a Prime-Time TV Special
- Cooking the Books
- The Vintage Car Table-Mat Collection of the Living Dead
- Persia
- Black Day at Bad Rock
- Revelation's Child
- Can't Slow Down for Fear I'll Die
- Outside the Wood
- Chang-Siu and the Blade of Grass
- The Words
- The Illustrations
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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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