Enter the gothic world in this celebration of the literary form made famous by such writers as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe. From a lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant and a serial killer who defies death, to a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds within its peeling walls a grotesque secret, these ten stories draw on dark fantasy and fairy tale, horror and wild humour, the supernatural and the surreal...

 

There are 256 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2007 by Walker Books Ltd .

Deborah Noyes is an editor and author living near Boston, USA. She is the writer of Hana in the Time of Tulips (9780744557923), a picture book about tulipomania in seventeenth-century Holland.