"You couldn't introduce her to a situation without her trying to convince you she had locked eyes with someone she recognised, trying to form a link, perhaps, to explain how she had gone from A to B in life."
Tag: Novella
The Swallowed Man
"I am writing this account, in another man's book, by candlelight, inside the belly of a fish. I have been eaten."
7 Ghost Books To Devour This Halloween
7 of my favourite ghost books to get you in the spooky-spirit...
The Cave
An 1928 ghost story which will make you immediately hungry for more of Kate Mosse's stories...
Carmilla
“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish."
Animals Eat Each Other
"I'm pretty sure the meaning of life is about sex. Otherwise, why do we suffer so much for it? Why do guys get jobs they hate? Why do men marry women they don't like? Why do girls do the stupid shit they do? Why do they all seem so fucking unhappy?"
The Snow Goose
“He was a friend to all things wild, and the wild things repaid him with their friendship.”
The Golden Orphans
A novella packed with the detail, characterisation and flair of a doorstop-sized literary thriller.
The Old Man And The Sea
“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Sexing The Cherry
“As your lover describes you, so you are.”