Steve Nallon's Ghost Stories
Scratching Shed Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0686189-6-3 (ISBN)
Stories
is a darkly humorous collection of twelve ghost stories for grown-ups offering
modern takes on the classic British supernatural tradition together with a fascinating article
on the nature of the ghost story, focusing particularly on the great Victorian
and Edwardian traditions.
Steve Nallon's Ghost Stories is a darkly humorous collection of twelve ghost stories for grown-ups offering modern takes on the classic British supernatural tradition - including:*
There's a tale with a plan to expose fraudulent clairvoyants that leads
to unexpectedly grave consequences.
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A Gothic horror featuring the biblical Witch of Endor.
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Lady Thatcher a-haunting Downing Street and freaking out recent prime
ministers, including the present incumbent, Sir Keir Starmer.
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A murder mystery set in an old manor house where a symposium on the
Victorian ghost tale is taking place.
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A creepy Halloween homage to M.R. James.
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A laugh-out-loud farce involving a frolicsome Hattie Jacques taking up
ghostly residence in the downstairs toilet of two gay bears.
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Plus Christmas angels, unaccountable shadows and a theatre ghost!
All twelve stories have lavish, full colour
digital paintings by Spitting Image artist and illustrator, Scott
Brooker.
Steve Nallon is a writer and actor. He began his performing life with his own comedy act on the Northern Working Men's Club circuit in Yorkshire back in the 1970s. After gaining a degree in Drama and English at the University of Birmingham, Steve became a founding member of the television series Spitting Image, where for over a decade he voiced many of the programme's most iconic characters, including Margaret Thatcher, Alan Bennett and The Queen Mum. Steve's acting work now ranges from theatre, film and television, to video games, radio drama and audio books. As a playwright and comedy writer, Steve has a considerable body of credits to his name, including plays and series for BBC radio, three one-man theatre shows and the satirical book I, Margaret, which he co-wrote with Tom Holt. In 2022 Steve's novel The Time That Never Was, the first book in a new young adult book series called The Swidgers, was published by Luath Press, and the second in the series, The Time T hey Saved Tomorrow, came out in 2024. Destination Time Travel, an exploration of the story tropes of time travel tales written with British Film Institute archivist Dick Fiddy, was published in 2023. Over the years, Steve has contributed to numerous periodicals such as The New Statesman and Musical Stages, and is a much sought after speaker on the lecture circuit and in university colleges for his insightful and amusing talks. Growing up in a haunted house, Scott Brooker is no stranger to the weird and supernatural - talking of which, he first met Steve in 1984, when a ghastly career as a character designer and puppet-maker began upon joining the Spitting Image team in an old banana warehouse in London's Docklands. Since then, he has designed and/or made many characters for television, film, ads and theatre, including the Peperami sausage, Rattus from CBBC's Horrible Histories, and the woefully under-rated The Harry Hill Movie. T hanks to Steve, this is Scott's first foray into the weird and supernatural world of publishing...
Introduction - The Collection
The Oath of Aesculapius
'It's What She Would Have Wanted'
The Portrait of a Looking-Glass
Visiting Hattie
The Final Fake
The Return of the Handbag
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'I Was Once a Haunted House'
The Strange Case of the Unaccountable Shadow,
For the Hell of It
The Ghost Light
Who Fed the Cat?
Under the Mistletoe
Appendix I - Thoughts on the Ghost Tale
Appendix II - A Yelly Nada in Polari
Appendix III - Transcripts of two lectures given at the Claverley Manor
Conference Centre symposium: 'The Ghosts of Many Worlds'.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.10.2024 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 1 x 16pg colour inserts |
| Verlagsort | Leeds |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror |
| ISBN-10 | 1-0686189-6-5 / 1068618965 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-0686189-6-3 / 9781068618963 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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