Joan Aiken

The People in the Castle

Selected Strange Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One day a few years from now you'll be busy with something and these stories will come back to you.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Small Beer Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 136mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9781618731449
• ISBN-10: 1618731440
• Artikelnr.: 47749398

Autorenporträt

Best known for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken (1924-2004) wrote over a hundred books and won the Guardian and Edgar Allan Poe awards. After her first husband's death, she supported her family by copyediting at Argosy magazine and an advertising agency before turning to fiction. She went on to write for Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Vanity Fair, Argosy, Women's Own, and many others. Visit her online at: www.joanaiken.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by Kelly Link
"The Power of Storytelling: Joan Aiken's Strange Stories" by Lizza Aiken
Cold Flame
The Dark Streets of Kimball's Green
Furry Night
Hope
Humblepuppy
The Lame King
The Last Specimen
A Leg Full of Rubies
Listening
Lob's Girl
The Man Who Had Seen the Rope Trick
The Mysterious Barricades
Old Fillikin
The People in the Castle
A Portable Elephant
A Room Full of Leaves
She Was Afraid of Upstairs
Some Music for the Wicked Countess
Sonata for Harp and Bicycle
Watkyn, Comma