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BASIL COPPER: A LIFE IN BOOKS

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Basil Copper’s birth, PS Publishing Ltd. is proud to reissue Basil Copper: A Life in Books in a new, revised and updated edition.

Back in 2008, following three years’ extensive research and being given unprecedented and unrestricted access to the books and papers of renowned British macabre and crime writer Basil Copper, multiple award-winning editor and writer Stephen Jones produced Basil Copper: A Life in Books, a unique and in-depth study of the author and his works that won the British Fantasy Award.

Following Basil’s death in 2013, many more papers and manuscripts were discovered, and this newly-unearthed material has now been incorporated into this completely new edition. Containing the most comprehensive Working Bibliography ever compiled of Basil Copper’s productive output, rare and obscure articles covering everything from Arkham House creator August Derleth to a brief history of Count Dracula, numerous short story fragments and ideas, along with a complete television script based on M.R. James’ classic horror story ‘Count Magnus’, Basil Copper: A Life in Books is profusely illustrated with artwork by Randy Broecker and Les Edwards, numerous cover reproductions and unique personal photographs from the author’s own collection.

THE CURSE OF THE FLEERS

When Captain Guy Hammond, on  convalescent leave from his regiment, is contacted by his old friend Cedric Fleer, he finds himself plunged into a treacherous web of deadly intrigue and unimaginable horror surrounding a noble Dorset family.
Cedric’s father, Sir John Fleer, is being driven to the brink of madness by the ghoulish apparition of the ‘Creeping Man of Fleers’ which haunts the battlements of Fleer Manor. Is the bloodied and dying figure the fulfilment of the gruesome ancestral curse laid on the family, or is there a yet more sinister explanation for the horrifying deaths that follow Hammond’s arrival at the ancient mansion?
As the mysterious deaths mount up, Hammond must unravel the family feud that has raged down the centuries between the Fleers and the Darnleys, born of appalling crimes in the bloody past. Is Sir Jeffrey Darnley, the Fleers’ hated neighbour, responsible for these terrible events? Or could The Great Waldo, a celebrated actor who is also a master of disguise, also be implicated? Then there is the grotesque menagerie at Fleer Manor containing Konga, a huge ape that is capable of tearing a human being apart, and the sinister catacombs beneath the house which hide an ancient and deadly secret.
But with time fast running out, can Captain Hammond brave death and danger long enough to discover what that terrifying secret is?
Published here in the version the author originally intended, The Curse of the Fleers is a “lost” Victorian Gothic novel by one of Britain’s acknowledged masters of the macabre.