検索キーワード： "Mark James" 選集・短編小説

Spies come in all shapes and sizes but all of the spies in this volume are decidedly not like the urbane British agent James Bond, who regularly saves the world. These spies are on a missionand whether that’s saving their own lives, or the lives of many others imperilled by their Nation’s foes.

Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. Many of his elegant yet terrifying tales were created by discarding the prevailing gothic clichés and placing his characters and narrative in a realistic setting. Thereby the stories gained atmosphere and menace on a grand scale and he was famed as the originator of the antiquarian ghost story. Although story-telling and writing these 30 or so tales was a hobby, when published their effect transformed the genre and still chill the bones in our more modern times.

“Think of what late greats James Herbert and Richard Laymon may have given birth to had they ever collaborated” (Richard Chizmar). Welcome to the long-awaited collection from the writer of horror novels Pede and Tenebrion; a foreword by Richard Chizmar (coauthor of Gwendy’s Button Box and author of A Long December), 18 short stories, five flash fiction, and even a poem - all skin-crawling, soul-shredding tales of terror, of the darkest things that skulk among the night’s inky shadows, and of the everyday gone horribly awry.