The Parts We Play
Cover art by Pedro Marques. Introduction by Nathan Ballingrud.
An illusionist preparing his latest, most audacious trick... A movie fan hiding from a totalitarian regime... A pop singer created with the perfect ingredients for stardom... A folklorist determined to catch a supernatural entity on tape... A dead child appearing to her mother in the middle of a supermarket aisle... A man who breaks the ultimate taboo — but does that make him a monster?...
In this rich and varied collection of Stephen Volk's best fiction to date, characters seek to be the people they need to be, jostled by hope, fears, responsibility, fate, and their own inner demons — and desires. These tales of the lies and lives we live and the pasts we can't forget include the British Fantasy Award-winning novella, Newspaper Heart.
Contents:
- “Horror and Heartbreak” by Nathan Ballingrud
- Celebrity Frankenstein
- Bless
- A Whisper to a Grey
- The Arse-licker
- The Peter Lorre Fan Club
- Certain Faces
- With All My Love Always Always Forever xxx
- Matilda of the Night
- The Shug Monkey
- Wrong
- The Magician Kelso Dennett
- Newspaper Heart
- Story Notes
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Stephen Volk
Stephen Volk is a British screenwriter, whose first produced work was Ken Russell's film Gothic in 1986.
His most famous work is Ghostwatch, a controversial drama shown on BBC One on Halloween 1992. It is commonly misrepresented as a hoax documentary, but this was never the intention. It was originally planned as a six-part series for the BBC. However, the producer of the six-part series, Ruth Baumgarten, didn't believe it had commercial viability. Stephen reworked the script so that everything would be set "Like episode six" and repitched it as a 90 minute live broadcast drama on behalf of BBC's Screen One drama segment. Ruth accepted the new format. Volk's work often involves the supernatural and the paranormal, such as with the ITV1 thriller series Afterlife (2005–06).
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