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“gerald kersh”

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  • Prelude to a Certain Midnight

    by Gerald Kersh ...
    Prelude to a Certain Midnight, first published in 1947, is a novel of the rise and fall of a group of patrons of a neighborhood bar on a side street of London's East End. In the midst of the looming World War II, a 10-year-old Jewish girl is murdered. The police have no clues and little interest in solving the crime, so Asta Thundersley, a wealthy woman, turns crusader and takes up the challenge, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On an Odd Note

    by Gerald Kersh ...
    "Gerald Kersh had a wild imagination matched by a vivid, near-hallucinatory style. Many of his concepts are so original that they blur the distinction between fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and horror, but the cumulative impact of his short stories is horrific in the extreme." - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural"Kersh tells a story, as such, rather better than anybody else." ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories

    by Gerald Kersh ...
    'It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially, perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of genuine distinction; at his surest, that is, he is a short story writer of a strongly individual and rewarding kind... the best and cleverest [of the ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Great Wash

    by Gerald Kersh ...
    Journalist George Oaks and his friend Albert Kemp, a mystery novelist, are on their way to meet their friend, the celebrated philosopher Dr. Monacelli. But when a clerical mix-up leads to their meeting the American gangster Monty Cello instead, Oaks and Kemp quickly find themselves caught up in a bizarre and dangerous plot involving a murdered reporter, a missing scientist, and a group of powerful ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Dead Look On

    by Gerald Kersh ...
    The Dead Look On, first published in 1943, is a fictional account of the World War II Nazi-atrocity in Lidice, Czechoslovakia (called Dudicks in the book). The novel closely follows actual events which took place shortly after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in late May 1942. Following Heydrich's death, Adolph Hitler and Heinrich Himmler ordered, as a reprisal, the complete destruction of ... Read more

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  • The Best of Gerald Kersh

    by Gerald Kersh ...
    '[Gerald Kersh] is a story-teller of an almost vanished kind - though the proper description is perhaps a teller of 'rattling good yarns'... He is fascinated by the grotesque and the bizarre, by the misfits of life, the angry, the down-and-outs and the damned. A girl of eight commits a murder. Some circus freaks are shipwrecked on an island. A chess champion walks in his sleep and destroys the ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • Fowlers End

    by Kersh,Gerald ...
    An amazing comic novel by Kersh (Night and The City). It's the tale of a young man who enters the peculiar underworld of Cockney Theatre, and quickly finds himself wrapped up in scams, treachery, nitro-glycerine and midgets. This bawdy, rollicking novel, featuring in Sam Yudenow the most fittingly peculiar dialogue since Sheridan's Mrs. Malaprop graced the stage, is the last to be written by Kersh ... Read more

    $1.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fowlers End

    by Gerald Kersh, Michael Moorcock ...
    "One of the great comic novels of the century." - Anthony Burgess"[A]n exuberant romp with a parcel of grotesques in a truly horrible nor'-nor'-easterly suburb of London . . . great fun." - Manchester Guardian"Rabelaisian, vigorous, readable, inventive and bizarre." - Simon Raven"The very best of his works." - Harlan EllisonIn the worst, poorest, most benighted corner of London is Fowlers End, one ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Neither Man Nor Dog

    by Gerald Kersh ...
    This collection of 37 stories by a master of the form features tales that are sometimes funny, sometimes violent, and sometimes weird and nightmarish: in short, it is quintessential Gerald Kersh. Kersh (1911-1968) published more than thirty books, including the noir classic Night and the City(1938) and Fowlers End (1957), which Anthony Burgess called "one of the great comic novels of the century," ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Prelude to a Certain Midnight

    by Gerald Kersh ...
    ''Prelude to a Certain Midnight'' is a bleak, razor-sharp psychological noir novel written in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Set against the backdrop of late 1930s London as war looms, the book functions as a scathing critique of human callousness and a symbolic response to Nazi atrocities, distilled into a grim local crime. The narrative centers on the horrific, unsolved rape ... Read more

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  • Fowlers End

    by Gerald Kersh ...
    An amazing comic novel by Kersh (Night and The City). It's the tale of a young man who enters the peculiar underworld of Cockney Theatre, and quickly finds himself wrapped up in scams, treachery, nitro-glycerine and midgets. This bawdy, rollicking novel, featuring in Sam Yudenow the most fittingly peculiar dialogue since Sheridan's Mrs. Malaprop graced the stage, is the last to be written by Kersh ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Clock Without Hands

    by Gerald Kersh ...
    "How easy Mr. Kersh makes it all seem! How admirably he sets the scene, the atmosphere . . . very neatly done." - The Observer"Three short, rough novels, hard-hitting, battering the emotions without compunction . . . Kersh tells a story, as such, rather better than anybody else." - Pamela Hansford Johnson, Daily TelegraphBest known for his gritty novels of London life and his weird and often ... Read more

    $7.99 USD