Don't Go to Sleep in the Dark (ePub)
Short Stories
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Here are thirteen harrowing tales by the indisputable mistress of horror," the Edgar Award-winning author of The Hours Before Dawn (Chattanooga Times Free Press).
Sometimes the things that go bump in the night are our own thoughts coming out to play....
Sometimes the things that go bump in the night are our own thoughts coming out to play....
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"Here are thirteen harrowing tales by the indisputable mistress of horror," the Edgar Award-winning author of The Hours Before Dawn (Chattanooga Times Free Press).
Sometimes the things that go bump in the night are our own thoughts coming out to play. Celia Fremlin, an expert on portraying the inner turmoil of everyday people, captures both the psychological and the supernatural in thirteen horror stories, her first collection of short fiction.
Playing "The Quiet Game" with her boisterous twins drives one young mother to seek refuge in their favorite place-even if it is a land of make-believe. When her dying former lover makes his last request, it's one demand too many for the woman he kept under his thumb in "The Betrayal." Jealous of her husband's young love, a middle-aged woman tries to remain "For Ever Fair," until she sees the living proof of a doctor who can turn back the clock. A date night for a busy couple transforms into a living nightmare when they leave their daughter in the care of "The Baby-Sitter." And after a rage-filled stranger comes to call, a teenage girl finally bonds with her obsessively tidy mother in "The Hated House."
Tales of twisted paranoia, passion, and despair reside in this "outstanding collection . . . all are well-written and all are possible and none should be read when alone in a dark house" (Savannah Morning News).
Praise for Celia Fremlin
"Few people can chill the blood like Celia Fremlin." -The Daily Telegraph
"Fremlin is here to stay as a major mistress of insight and suspense." -The New York Times
"Britain's Patricia Highsmith." -The Sunday Times
Sometimes the things that go bump in the night are our own thoughts coming out to play. Celia Fremlin, an expert on portraying the inner turmoil of everyday people, captures both the psychological and the supernatural in thirteen horror stories, her first collection of short fiction.
Playing "The Quiet Game" with her boisterous twins drives one young mother to seek refuge in their favorite place-even if it is a land of make-believe. When her dying former lover makes his last request, it's one demand too many for the woman he kept under his thumb in "The Betrayal." Jealous of her husband's young love, a middle-aged woman tries to remain "For Ever Fair," until she sees the living proof of a doctor who can turn back the clock. A date night for a busy couple transforms into a living nightmare when they leave their daughter in the care of "The Baby-Sitter." And after a rage-filled stranger comes to call, a teenage girl finally bonds with her obsessively tidy mother in "The Hated House."
Tales of twisted paranoia, passion, and despair reside in this "outstanding collection . . . all are well-written and all are possible and none should be read when alone in a dark house" (Savannah Morning News).
Praise for Celia Fremlin
"Few people can chill the blood like Celia Fremlin." -The Daily Telegraph
"Fremlin is here to stay as a major mistress of insight and suspense." -The New York Times
"Britain's Patricia Highsmith." -The Sunday Times
Autoren-Porträt von Celia Fremlin
Celia Fremlin (1914-2009) was born in Kent and spent her childhood in Hertfordshire, before studying at Oxford. During World War II, she served as an air-raid warden before becoming involved with the Mass Observation Project, collaborating on a study of women workers, War Factory. After the loss of her husband and youngest daughter to separate tragedies, Fremlin briefly relocated to Geneva. In 1985, she married Leslie Minchin, with whom she lived until his death in 1999. Over four decades, Fremlin wrote sixteen celebrated novels-including the classic summer holiday mystery Uncle Paul-one book of poetry and three short-story collections. Her debut novel The Hours Before Dawn won the Edgar Award in 1960.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Celia Fremlin
- 2024, 250 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
- ISBN-10: 1504095146
- ISBN-13: 9781504095143
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.07.2024
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