Choose Wisely! Once a literary bad boy, the only lines Professor Sebastian Swift does these days are Browning, Frost and Cummings. When a student he helped to disappear becomes a suspect in a murder, he races to find the boy and convince him to give himself up before his police chief lover figures out he's involved. Max likes being lied to even less than he likes sonnets. Yet his instincts--and his heart--tell him his boyfriend is being played and a dangerous enemy may not stop until Swift is heading up his own dead poet's society.

People and animals are never what they seem. Men turn into werewolves in Angela Carter's classic play The Company of Wolves (now turned into a film). A beautiful girl turns out to be a vampire in Vampirella, a Transylvanian fable shadowed by the Great War. Meanwhile, Puss in Boots is out on the tiles, in a breathless entertainment. In Come Unto These Yellow Sand Carter takes you inside the eerie paintings of Richard Dadd ' to hear the beings within - the monsters produced by represssion - squeak and gibber and tell the truth'. In her introduction Angela Carter discusses the problems and delights of writing for radio: 'Radio retains the atavistic lure, the atavistic power, of voices in the dark, and the writers who gives he words to those voices retains some of the authority of the most antique tellers of tales'. The book includes nine reproductions of pictures by or of Richard Dadd.

This is the only book-length study of Carter's work in media, a critically neglected body of work comprising five radio plays, two film adaptions, and a television documentary, as well as two unrealised screenplays, an operatic libretto, and a stage play.

Beneath the surface of These Yellow Sands lies a hidden world of coping with change. As a questionable piece of an unsolved mystery is unearthed, the Outer Banks adjusted to the age of tourism. Amidst the backdrop of treacherous shipwreck rescues and a ghost town sustained by illicit moonshine, a tangled web of human drama unfolds. Grief and resilience intertwine as characters grapple with an uncertain future. Quiet beaches whisper untold secrets, while the encroaching tide of tourism threatens to strip away the isolation of America's birthplace. A young reporter, haunted by personal tragedy, seeks solace on Roanoke Island. But his pursuit of a fresh start leads to a puzzle. Hidden truths are uncovered. High stakes come with unmasking the past. In These Yellow Sands, the price of progress becomes clear, and the line between legend and reality blurs. As the suspense tightens its grip, prepare for a journey where the mysteries carry grave consequences. Can you handle the truth, or is it better to let the shadows of the Outer Banks keep their haunting secrets?