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TWO DARK TALES
Jack Squat and The Niche
Powerful stories of the literary uncanny in the tradition of CARRIE, LORD OF THE FLIES and DON'T LOOK NOW
The genre-defying dream of a novel' THE CHILDREN'S HOME explored ideas of love and power in an eerily unforgettable, gothic-tinged world. Again in TWO DARK TALES Charles Lambert offers us human truths in narratives that unsettle and chill.
In this pairing of two haunting novellas, THE NICHE and JACK SQUAT, there are creepy delights for fans of Stephen King, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Susan Hill and Daphne du Maurier. In The Niche' Lambert recreates the claustrophobic atmosphere in a boys' school, where bullying torques into something much more menacing. In Jack Squat' a gay couple help wealthy foreigners to buy Italian holiday villas but when they realise a mysterious tower in an olive grove offers the opportunity for deception and profit, things begin to get seriously scary. They may have hit upon the right victim to dupe, but it seems they have chosen the wrong house Read with the lights on!
Even when the reality he describes is off-kilter, Charles Lambert's characterisation is always deft and moving. Hannah Tinti published his ghostly O. Henry Prize winner The Scent of Cinnamon' in One Story and said this: Charles Lambert pulls out the deepest-held emotions of his characters love and desire and loneliness and hope until they ripple across the page, and the reader feels them too.'
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in England, he teaches in Rome. His work is included in several anthologies, including NEW WRITING 15 (Granta).
In this pairing of two haunting novellas, THE NICHE and JACK SQUAT, there are creepy delights for fans of Stephen King, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Susan Hill and Daphne du Maurier. In The Niche' Lambert recreates the claustrophobic atmosphere in a boys' school, where bullying torques into something much more menacing. In Jack Squat' a gay couple help wealthy foreigners to buy Italian holiday villas but when they realise a mysterious tower in an olive grove offers the opportunity for deception and profit, things begin to get seriously scary. They may have hit upon the right victim to dupe, but it seems they have chosen the wrong house Read with the lights on!
Even when the reality he describes is off-kilter, Charles Lambert's characterisation is always deft and moving. Hannah Tinti published his ghostly O. Henry Prize winner The Scent of Cinnamon' in One Story and said this: Charles Lambert pulls out the deepest-held emotions of his characters love and desire and loneliness and hope until they ripple across the page, and the reader feels them too.'
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in England, he teaches in Rome. His work is included in several anthologies, including NEW WRITING 15 (Granta).
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Published 2017-10-01 by Aardvark Bureau |