"Gerald Kersh had a wild imagination matched by a vivid, near-hallucinatory style. Many of his concepts are so original that they blur the distinction between fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and horror, but the cumulative impact of his short stories is horrific in the extreme." - "Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural"
"Kersh tells a story, as such, rather better than anybody else." - Pamela Hansford Johnson, "Daily Telegraph"
"Gerald Kersh has a strange, perverted sort of genius. And how he can write " - Virginia Kirkus
The discovery of piles of bones seeming...

"An extravaganza . . . fertile invention and forceful style . . . Mr. Kersh's many admirers will undoubtedly devour this highly flavoured hotch-potch with avidity." - Julian Maclaren-Ross, "Sunday Times"
" F]irst-rate Kersh, richly peopled with the odd bit roles he sketches so well and written with style and individuality." - Anthony Boucher, "New York Herald Tribune"
"Sometimes funny, sometimes nightmarish, always first-class entertainment." - Basil Davenport, "New York Times"
Journalist George Oaks and his friend Albert Kemp, a mystery novelist, are on their way to meet their...

This collection of 37 stories by a master of the form features tales that are sometimes funny, sometimes violent, and sometimes weird and nightmarish: in short, it is quintessential Gerald Kersh. Kersh (1911-1968) published more than thirty books, including the noir classic "Night and the City" (1938) and "Fowlers End" (1957), which Anthony Burgess called "one of the great comic novels of the century," as well as hundreds of short stories which were once ubiquitous in British and American magazines. But though he has been championed by Angela Carter, Harlan Ellison, Ian Fleming, Michael...