This Is Midnight
Bernard Taylor
Book Description
The complete short fiction of a master of modern horror fiction
In ‘Out of Sorts’, things get hairy for a man’s wife and his mistress when he begins to feel unwell on the night of a full moon. In ‘Travelling Light’, a traveller is obliged to share a room with a strange man who seems to know a little too much about a series of bizarre murders in which wives have been slain by their husbands. A tourist fascinated by the serial killer John Reginald Christie undergoes an uncanny and horrific experience on a trip to London in ‘Forget-Me-Not’. And in ‘Samhain’, marital strife threatens to turn deadly when a witch turns to black magic to do away with her pathetic husband.
The thirteen stories collected here represent the complete short fiction of Bernard Taylor, one of the bestselling horror authors of the 1970s and ’80s, author of The Godsend and Mother’s Boys, both adapted for film, and Sweetheart, Sweetheart, hailed by Charles L. Grant as the finest ghost story of all time. In these tales, which often feature an unexpectedly cruel or bizarre twist, Taylor offers a clever mixture of horror and black humour that will delight fans of the genre.
Bernard Taylor
Book Description
The complete short fiction of a master of modern horror fiction
In ‘Out of Sorts’, things get hairy for a man’s wife and his mistress when he begins to feel unwell on the night of a full moon. In ‘Travelling Light’, a traveller is obliged to share a room with a strange man who seems to know a little too much about a series of bizarre murders in which wives have been slain by their husbands. A tourist fascinated by the serial killer John Reginald Christie undergoes an uncanny and horrific experience on a trip to London in ‘Forget-Me-Not’. And in ‘Samhain’, marital strife threatens to turn deadly when a witch turns to black magic to do away with her pathetic husband.
The thirteen stories collected here represent the complete short fiction of Bernard Taylor, one of the bestselling horror authors of the 1970s and ’80s, author of The Godsend and Mother’s Boys, both adapted for film, and Sweetheart, Sweetheart, hailed by Charles L. Grant as the finest ghost story of all time. In these tales, which often feature an unexpectedly cruel or bizarre twist, Taylor offers a clever mixture of horror and black humour that will delight fans of the genre.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR BERNARD TAYLOR
‘I enjoyed every horrid word of it’ - Daily Telegraph on The Godsend
‘The best ghost story I have ever read … a potential classic’ - Charles L. Grant on Sweetheart, Sweetheart
‘Weaves a web that grows tighter with each turn of the page’ - Booklist on The Reaping
‘The best ghost story I have ever read … a potential classic’ - Charles L. Grant on Sweetheart, Sweetheart
‘Weaves a web that grows tighter with each turn of the page’ - Booklist on The Reaping
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ISBN: 1954321236 ISBN-13: 978-1954321236 $24.99 US, 186 pp. Case Laminate Hardcover Published 2019 BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 1948405393 ISBN-13: 978-1948405393 $16.99 US, 186 pp. Trade paper Published 2019 |
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Bernard Taylor was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and now lives in London. Following active service in Egypt in the Royal Air Force, he studied Fine Arts in Swindon, then at Chelsea School of Art and Birmingham University. On graduation he worked as a teacher, painter and book illustrator before going as a teacher to the United States. While there, he took up acting and writing and continued with both after his return to England. He has published ten novels under his own name, including The Godsend (1976), which was adapted for a major film, and Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1977), which Charles L. Grant has hailed as one of the finest ghost stories ever written. He has also written novels under the pseudonym Jess Foley, as well as several works of nonfiction. He has won awards for his true crime writing and also for his work as a playwright. It was during his year as resident playwright at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch that he wrote The Godsend. There Must Be Evil, his latest true crime study, is to be published in England in September.