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Captain Damnation and other strange
tale I Harry Riley (2010) Fiction UK £6.99 / US $11.99 / EUR
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About this book
As an unashamed admirer of Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar
Allan Poe, and Roald Dahl’s quirky tales I have added a touch of my own
black humour to this collection of short stories.
My
earliest childhood memories of blood curdling yarns on the radio, spoken by
a man with a dark sepulchral voice, have left me with a lifetime’s passion
for what were once known (long before my time I might add) as ‘Penny
Dreadfuls’ or American Dime Novels: lurid tales of mysterious mayhem
designed to deliciously shock and horrify our impressionable young minds.
Science can explain away so many mysteries but it is often the
creepy-unexpected that trips you up and opens the door to superstitious
dread.
However where my tales have a ghostly theme running through them they will
often have a perfectly rational explanation. Occasionally they may even
raise a smile or two.
Modern lives are driven at such a fast pace with all the demands on our time
and leisure that we often try and fit twenty-five hours into every working
day, thus leaving very little space to absorb and do justice to the full
length novel. This is why I believe the ‘Ten-Minute-Tale’ has a place to
lift us out of the mundane. I hope you enjoy these offerings as you
‘cherry-pick’ your path along life’s crooked highway.
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