GROTESQUE TALES... UNEASY TALES... "The emaciated sodden legs beat a ceaseless march on the unresisting veil, like those of a gallows victim marking time in air. The battered, half-eaten arms clawed blindly at nothing. The eyes were gone, and within their ragged-edged hollows was manifest the coiling purposeful movement of reptilian life." ('Animate in Death') Squadron Leader Leslie Allin Lewis (1899-1961) was a veteran of both world wars, flying Sopwith Camels over France in 1918 and Hurricanes over England in 1940. He was also one of the best writers in the macabre and supernatural genre between wars. "Lewis undoubtedly earns a high place among the best masters of supernatural and macabre literature that Britain has ever produced." (Richard Dalby) "A brilliant collection." (Mark Samuels) FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK.

13 Tales of the Uneasy! A Serial Killer at large on LondonÕs Underground An ÒEnd of the PierÓ Ventriloquist act A 17th Century Witch-Hunt A Post-War Culinary Tale An ÒOdd RaceÓ through a Cemetery A Tale set during LondonÕs ÒBlitzÓ Strange Events at a Late-night Bus stop Back-Roads Mayhem, in a Tale Spanning Decades Strange Happenings in a Doctors Surgery Coincidence Explored, in this Modern-day Yarn Murder, Retribution, and Punch and Judy, in this Horrific Tale A Railway Station Encounter for this Young Blind Man A Poignant, Heart-Warming Story of a ÒSpecial EncounterÓ Another batch of Tales with Diverse Story-Lines in this second Collection from London-Based Robert Charles Hines

From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is initiated into a family story of monstrous deeds. A student learns frightening lessons in a surreal tutoring center. A young couple struggles to make their stand against a group of inhuman pursuers in a ravaged landscape. And, in a new story, an artist discovers a mysterious statue whose completion becomes his obsession.

The Prayer by Violet Hunt is a critical depiction of the 19th-century middle upper class in London. Excerpt: "'It is but giving over of a game. That must be lost.'--PHILASTER 'Come, Mrs Arne--come, my dear, you must not give way like this! You can't stand it--you really can't! Let Miss Kate take you away--now do!' urged the nurse, with her most motherly of intonations."