Description: Things I Didn't Know My Father Knew by Peter Crowther Cemetery Dance Signed 37 of 500 Out-of-Print About the Book: The newest collection by acclaimed British horror master Peter Crowther, these stories are the very best of his incredible short works of horror and suspense: Things I Didn't Know My Father Knew: An unusual visitor rolls into town one day under cover of a thick fog . . . just to touch base with someone he maybe once knew.All We Know of Heaven: A small boy finds the answer to his and his father's dilemma in the legend of King Arthur and his mystical sword, Excalibur.Tomorrow Eyes: A Runyonesque gambler discovers the strangest set of dice you ever saw being rolled on a cloth.Some Burial Place, Vast and Dry: The lonely survivor of a long-ago space mission receives a visit from a hauntingly familiar UFO.The Musician of Bremen, GA: Cal Williston, who can play the best version of 'Moonlight In Vermont' since Chet Baker teamed up with Gerry Mulligan.Boxing Day: A small-town crook about to fall under the spell of London rediscovers his wife.Keepsakes: PI. Koko Tate pays his mom a visit on Mother?s Day.Too Short A Death: A modern-day poet meets the long-deceased Weldon Kees's greatest literary creation.Eater: The cops at an off-the-beaten-track late-night precinct house have got more than they bargained for in one of the cells.Sitting Pretty: An armchair fashioned out of the wood from the original cross provides a comfort of sorts down the ages.Dark Times: Two old men tamper with the dark arts and open a gateway that threatens the destructions of the world.Jewels in the Dust: A couple jaded with their life together are visited by their collective histories.And, in Songs of Leaving, the imminent impact of a county-sized piece of space debris brings to the remnants of humanity a multitude of old friends to witness the fall of mankind. Published as a Signed & Slipcased Hardcover Limited Edition: ? Limited to just 500 signed and numbered copies ? Personally signed by the author on a unique signature page ? Printed on 60# acid-free paper ? Smyth sewn to create a more durable binding ? Wrapped in a full-color dust jacket BIO:Peter Crowther is the recipient of numerous awards for his writing, his editing and, as publisher, for the hugely successful PS Publishing (now including the Stanza Press poetry subsidiary and PS Artbooks, a specialist imprint dedicated to the comics field). As well as being widely translated, his short stories have been adapted for TV on both sides of the Atlantic and collected in The Longest Single Note, Lonesome Roads, Songs of Leaving, Cold Comforts, The Spaces Between the Lines, and The Land at the End of the Working Day. He is the co-author (with James Lovegrove) of Escardy Gap and The Hand That Feeds, and author of the Forever Twilight SF/horror cycle and By Wizard Oak. He lives and works (and still reads a lot of comicbooks!) with his wife and business partner, Nicky on the Yorkshire coast of England. 2128
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Special Attributes: Collector's Edition, Out-of-Print, Signed
Modified Item: Yes
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Illustrator: Tomislav Tikulin
Topic: Horror
Year Printed: 2021
Binding: Hardcover
Original/Facsimile: Original
Modification Description: Signed by Author
Language: English
Author: Peter Crowther
Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications