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BOOK DETAILS
Hardcover with dust jacket

ISBN-13: 978-1943910977
List Price: $34.99 U.S.
Pages: 274

Published: 2017

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BOOK DETAILS
Trade paper

ISBN-13: 978-1943910960

List Price: $18.99 U.S.
Pages: 274

Published: 2017
The Other Passenger (1944)
John Keir Cross
With a new introduction by J. F. Norris

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As a scriptwriter for the BBC, John Keir Cross (1914-1967) adapted classic horror tales by masters like M. R. James, Bram Stoker, and Ambrose Bierce into chilling radio programs. And with the eighteen stories in his collection The Other Passenger (1944), Keir Cross demonstrates that he deserves a place alongside those authors as a writer of highly original and effective macabre tales.

With a wide range of themes and styles, ranging from traditional ghost stories to contes cruels, black humor, tales of dark fantasy and surreal nightmare, and perhaps the best story about a ventriloquist and his dummy ever written, there are stories here to suit the tastes of any connoisseur of horror and weird fiction.

This first unabridged edition of Keir Cross’s landmark collection in over 70 years includes a new introduction by J. F. Norris.

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“It offers an original twist of horror that will leave its mark.” - Saturday Review

“Among the annals of weird fiction one of the most sought after volumes.” - Michael Ashley, Who’s Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction

“Sustained atmosphere, versatile forms and dramatic effects . . . the unusual ending is generally a surprise . . . haunting.” - Kirkus Reviews


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John Keir Cross was born in Scotland in 1914. A prolific writer of scripts for BBC radio and television programs, Keir Cross also published a number of science fiction and fantasy novels for young readers, either under his own name or the pseudonym Stephen MacFarlane. The Other Passenger (1944), a collection of macabre tales for adults, remains his best known work, though his contributions to the horror genre also include several influential anthologies, Best Horror Stories (1956), Best Black Magic Stories (1960), and Best Horror Stories 2 (1965). He died in 1967.

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