Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (Adrenaline) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560252774 ISBN 13: 9781560252771

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2000

Synopsis

Elizabeth Gaskell locks us in a room with a woman who is losing her mind - slowly; Will Self offers a vision of hell that would frighten Hannibel Lecter; Patrick McGrath gives us the world's worst mother and the darkness in which she lives; Thomas Harris introduces you to a madman who will chew off your lips, tie you to a wheelchair, and set you on fire... for starters; Iain Banks shows us evil in the mind of a child, ruined by the malice of a father. Bret Easton Ellis abandons us to the rage of a young man whose brutality will haunt your nightmares long after you've forgotten literature's other psychopaths. Also includes work by writers such as Stephen King, Anne Rice, Patricia Highsmith, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Bowles, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Shirley Jackson. Like all Adrenaline books Dark includes only first-rate prose, offering a vision of our capacity for evil - and a reminder of how much we love to be frightened.

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About the Author

Editor Jennifer Schwamm Willis grew up next door to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She graduated from Princeton in 1979, and has worked as a designer, teacher and editor. She lives in Maine with her husband and their two sons.

From AudioFile

This collection of creepy stories mixes classics such as Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" and W.W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw" with several more recent tales. Especially compelling are three first-person narratives: Graeme Malcolm's tale, told as if to spook party guests, of A.M. Burrage's "Smee"; Grover Gardner's bemused account of encounters with a seemingly delusional lady friend in Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Cafeteria"; and Colleen Delany's descent into madness as her character probes the secrets of "The Yellow Wallpaper" in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's tale. With one exception--a Will Self excerpt that is more sick than spooky--these tales were well chosen and are grippingly performed. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1560252774
• ISBN 13: 9781560252771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Clint Willis