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| Chris Mould |
| Hodder |
| 0340893265 |
| Oct 2006 |
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“In the daylight I was happy, but darkness seemed to pull a sinister cloak around my room and the uneasy feeling I had had in the beginning would not let go of me.” Told in a frame-setting reminiscent of Chaucer’s “The Book of the Tales of Caunterbury”, the reader assumes the role of a stranger, lost amidst travels, aided by a black-clad figure who will tell tales to pass time along the voyage... A decalog of ten deadly, dark ghost stories, in this volume Chris Mould has collected and retold ready for modern audiences, five tales of haunted happenings including Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleep Hollow” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”, interspersed between these stories, readers are, at last, treated to five of Chris’ own chilling tales. Proving himself adeptly equal to the challenge of the chilling, readers find themselves gripped in the hands of suspense and uncertainty, unsure whether its vice-like clamp will be released or whether it will close in, ever tighter, until we are crushed to the constituents of dust and bones… Exceptionally high production values, an astounding level of attention to detail and a beautiful lovingly packaged gift box including ghastly stickers and a gruesome skeleton to hang, make this a spook-tacularly special gift set to give to ghouls and boys aike... Chris Mould extends the influence of his self-branded ‘consumer friendly, politically correct, grotesque’ and of things that fester and are feared in this marvellous anthology by the master of the macabre. A perfect book to read during long, cold, dark evenings…
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