BUNDLE - BASIL COPPER - A Life in Books (2 Trade Paperbacks)

A chance to get two BASIL COPPER trade paperbackS for just £9.99 plus P&P.

BASIL COPPER: A LIFE IN BOOKS

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

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

Following Basils death in 2013, many more papers & manuscripts were discovered, & this newly-unearthed material has now been incorporated into this completely new edition. Containing the most comprehensive Working Bibliography ever compiled of Basil Coppers EDIT Productive output, rare & obscure articles covering everything from Arkham House creator August Derleth to a brief history of Count Dracula, numerous short story fragments & 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 & Les Edwards, numerous cover reEDIT Productions & unique personal photographs from the authors 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 & unimaginable horror surrounding a noble Dorset family.
Cedrics 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 & 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 Hammonds 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 & 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, & the sinister catacombs beneath the house which hide an ancient & deadly secret.
But with time fast running out, can Captain Hammond brave death & 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 Britains acknowledged masters of the macabre.