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An expedition in South America uncovers a terrifying race of men without bones who literally suck the life out of their prey. A man in 20th-century London makes a horrifying discovery about a monster found off the coast of Brighton in 1745. A sea captain goes ashore on a deserted island and finds what seem to be the bones of a previously unknown species of monster, only to learn that the bones tell a much more tragic tale than he could ever ha...

Harry Fabian is a cockney wide boy trying to make it big in the Soho underworld of the 1930s. He is a Flash Harry in an expensive suit, a chancer operating in a cosmopolitan corner of the city where villains, spivs, prostitutes and strong-arm men thrive. But his ambition and reckless nature are pushing him towards more and more extreme acts - and a day of reckoning. Night And The City is a classic work of social-realist fiction that captures t...

An expedition in South America uncovers a terrifying race of men without bones who literally suck the life out of their prey. A man in 20th-century London makes a horrifying discovery about a monster found off the coast of Brighton in 1745. A sea captain goes ashore on a deserted island and finds what seem to be the bones of a previously unknown species of monster, only to learn that the bones tell a much more tragic tale than he could ever ha...

Nachts im London der 40er Jahre: zwielichtige Clubs, Nutten, Trinker und verlorene Seelen. Unter ihnen Harry Fabian, ein aus dem Cockney Slum stammender mieser, kleiner Zuhälter, der die naive Zoe auf den Strich schickt und vom großen Geld träumt. Gemeinsam mit dem windigen Geschäftemacher Figler will Fabian Wrestling-Promoter werden. Das Animiermädchen Helen träumt vom eigenen Nachtclub, der arbeitslose künstler Adam will seine Pechsträhne al...

Learn, too the secret of the Mona Lisa's smile, or what really happened to Ambrose Bierce. And ponder, if you can, the case of Simple Simon, who lost the only important thing he had-and never even missed it. Lean back, relax, take a long look at the world of Kersh. You may never recover.

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No mortal can write this well." - Harlan Ellison "Kersh has a strange, perverted sense of genius. And how he can write." - Virginia Kirkus "Gerald Kersh had a wild imagination matched by a vivid, near-hallucinatory style. Many of his concepts are so original that they blur the distinction between fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and horror, but the cumulative impact of his short stories is horrific in the extreme." - Penguin Encycl...

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Collects both books They Die With Their Boots Clean and In The Nine Lives Of Bill Nelson.

Horrible Dummy and Other Stories.

The author is a story-teller of an almost vanished kind - though the proper description is perhaps a teller of 'rattling good yarns'... He is fascinated by the grotesque and the bizarre, by the misfits of life, the angry, the down-and-outs and the damned. This title tells his story.

Learn, too the secret of the Mona Lisa's smile, or what really happened to Ambrose Bierce. And ponder, if you can, the case of Simple Simon, who lost the only important thing he had-and never even missed it.Lean back, relax, take a long look at the world of Kersh.You may never recover.

In London under the fog of war, a 10-year-old Jewish girl is murdered. The police have no clues and little interest, so crusader Asta Thundesley takes up the challenge, sifting through clues and gathering up suspects for a dinner party where... nothing is learned. Detective Turpin goes by the book, and finds himself with a stunning set... of dead ends. Fascinating example of life's perils by author Kersh (Night and the City), who reminds for...

Venture into this alarmingly convincing world, meet the horse whose stubbornness changed history, or the man damned to everlasting love, or the murderer who confessed... and confessed... and confessed. Learn, too the secret of the Mona Lisa's smile, or what really happened to Ambrose Bierce. And ponder, if you can, the case of Simple Simon, who lost the only important thing he had--and never even missed it. Lean back, relax, take a long look...

Jugoslawien, 1943. Eine kleine versprengte Partisanentruppe wacher, verzweifelter Männer flieht in den Wald, nachdem sie ein Munitionsdepot der italienischen Besatzer überfallen hat. Ihre Beute: Dynamit und Zünder für den Widerstand. Einer stirbt für den anderen, damit der Rest an einem anderen Tag weiterkämpfen kann. Darunter ist der junge Andrej, dessen Dorf in Slowenien von den Faschisten dem Erdboden gleichgemacht wurde und der hier in ebe...

Als in der von deutschen Truppen besetzten Tschechei der SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei von Bertsch von einem vorbeifahrenden Motorradfahrer niedergeschossen wird, setzt das Dritte Reich 800.000 Reichsmark Belohnung für Hinweise aus, die zur Ergreifung des Täters führen. Als in der Nähe des kleinen Dorfes Dudicka ein verlassenes Motorrad am Uferrand geborgen wird, entsendet die Gestapo den berüchtigten SS-Offizier Heinz Horner, u...

Tells the story of John Pym, a young man trying to earn his living as a writer.

Tells the story of the beginning and the end of St Paul, that most complicated and worrying of all the saints. This book brings a highly concentrated area of Roman colonial history to very real life - the ornate wine-cup, the crapulous cold fruit-juice at dawn, dust on a sandal.