The Best of Gerald Kersh

Gerald Kersh

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9780571304493
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

'[Gerald Kersh] is a story-teller of an almost vanished kind - though the proper description is perhaps a teller of 'rattling good yarns'... He is fascinated by the grotesque and the bizarre, by the misfits of life, the angry, the down-and-outs and the damned. A girl of eight commits a murder. Some circus freaks are shipwrecked on an island. A chess champion walks in his sleep and destroys the games he has so carefully planned...' TLS
'Beneath his talented lightness and fantasy, Gerald Kersh is a serious man... [He] has the ability... to create a world which is not realistic and which is yet entirely credible and convincing on its own fantastic terms.' New York Times
'Mr Kersh tells a story; as such, rather better than anybody else.' Pamela Hansford Johnson, Telegraph

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• Neither Man Nor Dog
• The Devil that Troubled the Chessboard
• ‘Busto is a Ghost, Too Mean to Give us a Fright!’
• Thicker than Water
• The Crewel Needle
• The Queen of Pig Island
• The Sympathetic Souse
• The White-washed Room
• The Ape and the Mystery
• The King Who Collected Clocks
• Clock Without Hands
• Men Without Bones
• The Brighton Monster
• Frozen Beauty
• Carnival on the Downs
• Teeth and Nails
• In a Room Without Walls
• The Oxoxoco Bottle
• Copyright