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THE GHASTLING IBD

THE GHASTLING
12 / 2015
9780993499104
Anglès

Sinopsi

This is the eagerly awaited third issue. The tales in this collection hang between the living and the dead. Stories that ask questions about &lsquo,mortality&rsquo, and a surreptitious theme of the &lsquo,curse&rsquo, runs its cloying thread throughout, explores thresholds, interior hauntings and relationships with the inanimate. This time of year sees the release of the &lsquo,darker things&rsquo, we so enjoy reading and watching during winter. The time of year that brings shadows, short days and long nights. Calling the Dead explores the unfinished business of the &lsquo,recently departed&rsquo,, and is a cautionary tale for the living: do not play with the dead, else they will play with you. In The Woodchester Happening, an encounter with a seemingly mute boy leads to a strange and disturbing sequence of events. A Precious Possession is a peculiar tale of a box recently inherited, opened, when frankly, it was best left closed&hellip, In The Tower, a traveller finds himself amongst the ruins of an ancient and foreboding place in rural Eighteenth Century France, beware, reader, of the one who tells the tale&hellip, A film crew arrive in rural Spain to observe the rituals of a macabre festival at the site of a drowned village, unaware that they will become a little more than just spectators in The Village Below. Tight-Lipped is a chilling tale of what happens when a Ventriloquist dies and the grieving are faced with the, now detached, extended entity of the recently deceased. Having lost the extension which gave it life, character, a voice&hellip, áSacrilege then surely, to interfere with the ventriloquists&rsquo, belief to treat the dummy as though it were, in fact, living&hellip, Moth tells the tale of a young homeless man, recently out of gaol, seeking safety and solitude in a city cemetery but finds himself in unsettling company: the company of a soul collector to be precise&hellip,

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