Product Description
1 mix-up, 2 misfits, 3 horror stories, 4 fables, 5 speculations make up this collection of short stories by Roger Morris. The stories range in tone from the playful to the sinister. At times surreal, even bizarre, always entertaining, they all demonstrate what the Daily Express once described as Morris’s “storytelling panache”.
Writing as R.N. Morris, Roger Morris is the author of a series of historical crime novels set in nineteenth century St Petersburg. A Vengeful Longing was short-listed for the 2008 CWA Duncan Lawrie Gold Dagger for best crime novel. The Cleansing Flames was short-listed for the 2011 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger. In 2012 he began a new series featuring detective Silas Quinn. The first in the series is Summon Up The Blood. He is currently at work on the second.
Contents
1 mix-up:
The bridge that Buñuel built.
2 misfits:
The wigging of Samuel Pepperton.
A tenderhearted man.
3 horror stories:
The Church of Vengeance.
Beauty and the leech.
The symptoms of his madness were as follows:
4 fables:
Telltale Tom.
Seeds.
The forest.
The Devil’s drum.
5 speculations:
Revenants.
Not Miss Li.
The stricken.
An investigation to discover the comic potential of fucking with people’s minds. McKenzie, Pertwee and Fujitsu.
Stockshot City.
Writing as R.N. Morris, Roger Morris is the author of a series of historical crime novels set in nineteenth century St Petersburg. A Vengeful Longing was short-listed for the 2008 CWA Duncan Lawrie Gold Dagger for best crime novel. The Cleansing Flames was short-listed for the 2011 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger. In 2012 he began a new series featuring detective Silas Quinn. The first in the series is Summon Up The Blood. He is currently at work on the second.
Contents
1 mix-up:
The bridge that Buñuel built.
2 misfits:
The wigging of Samuel Pepperton.
A tenderhearted man.
3 horror stories:
The Church of Vengeance.
Beauty and the leech.
The symptoms of his madness were as follows:
4 fables:
Telltale Tom.
Seeds.
The forest.
The Devil’s drum.
5 speculations:
Revenants.
Not Miss Li.
The stricken.
An investigation to discover the comic potential of fucking with people’s minds. McKenzie, Pertwee and Fujitsu.
Stockshot City.
