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Old Devil Moon
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Book Details
- ISBN 9781852429256
- 6 December 2007
- 304pp
- Paperback
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Synopsis
A geologist trapped in a town without water is lured into a desperate escape plan. A boy plans a murder in an eerie funfair. A cop witnesses an inexplicable plague of madness. A teenager learns a deadly trick with his mobile phone. A woman unlocks a childhood secret with the aid of old comic books. A secret museum opens only at night.
Old Devil Moon is Christopher Fowler’s tenth collection of uniquely disturbing short stories, and contains the blackest humour and the darkest fears, set in worlds we walk through each day but rarely see.
Reviews
‘Pithy morality fables’ Dazed & Confused
‘Haunting’ Aesthetica
'Short, sharp shockers: gothic fantasies played out with noughties accessories... these are imaginative, bleak, cautionary tales, which shed their little pools of perverse candlelight on both new and familiar places' Guardian
'Laced with unease... reads like a series of Goya aquatints exploring the nastier extremes of human behaviour' Time Out
'Brilliant at probing what might happen should seemingly ordinary events go awry... Fowler creates an eerie atmosphere that lingers long in the mind after the last page has been turned' Attitude
‘Dark and dire and fuelled with spiky little twists… Fowler is a master of surprise who ratchets up tension with verve, aplomb and treacly humour’ Scotland on Sunday