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| Title | : | The Beast with Five Fingers (Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1840221798 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
Master of Strange Stories William Fryer Harvey's short stories are dark, ambivalent, murderous & sometimes slyly humorous. In this regard, he pre-dates Robert Aickman. Like some of Aickman's best tales - "Trains" & "Bind your hair" spring to mind - quite a few of Harvey's best tales are based around wanderings and the strange encounters that ensue. In "The Tool" a man takes a walking tour and someh. Much more than "August Heat" "Meh--only so-so," I thought after finishing the Oliver Onions collection. "I'm finished with ghost stories for a while; if I want scary tales, I'll go back and re-read M.R. James for the fiftieth time. Well, just one more; this one looks interesting, and I remember liking 'August Heat' from the hundred or so anthologies that include it--so we'll give Harvey a try." And I . "Good book but the print is small." according to Ronald E. Parsons. is also the name of the lead-off short story. This reviewer believes that the book was worth buying. I have enjoyed most of the stories, a few of which I have come across in other such anthologies. I recommend the book with this caveat: The print is small and therefore difficult for some (self-included) to read. Were it any smaller I would have needed a magnifying glass.
Harvey, an unjustly neglected author of supernatural tales. 'We'll keep it there until it dies,' he said. Along with such classics as "August Heat", which concerns two strangers whose individual fates become inextricably entwined in a nightmare scenario and the gruesome school yarn, "The Dabblers", you will find such minor masterpieces of the uncanny as "The Man Who Hated Aspidistras", "Sarah Bennet's Possession", "The Habeas Corpus Club" and many more stories which refreshingly avoid the cliche while at the same time creating that wonderfully eerie sense of fear.. The brilliant and scary "The Beast with Five Fingers", is the first entry in this mammoth collection of strange and chilling short stories by W. This unique volume demonstrates clearly that Harvey is one of the masters of the genre. F. 'May I burn in hell, if I ever open the door of that safe again'. ' - the hand was writhing in agonized contortions, squirming and wriggling upon the nail like a worm upon a hook
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