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Fourtold (Hardcover)

by Garry Kilworth (Foreword), Michael Stone (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Baysgarth Publications (18 Mar 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0955691907
  • ISBN-13: 978-0955691904
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,783,744 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Four novellas of dark and darker fantasy from Michael Stone. Introduction by World Fantasy Award-winner, Garry Kilworth.


From the Inside Flap

FOUR NOVELLAS OF DARK AND DARKER FANTASY FROM MICHAEL STONE.

SAN FERRY ANN

Spencer's humble blue caravan, standing in the centre of a courtyard, glittered with hoarfrost. Beside it, stripped to the waist in the forbidding night air, cavorted the Amazing Mackenzie. The Australian raised a taper to his lips and spat a tongue of fire that bathed the chateau walls in orange light.

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF KASPER CLARK

Kasper reluctantly lowered himself to the floor, foisting the suitcase before him like a shield. He tried not to stare at the man's hairless body, which was the coppery red of sun-dried tomatoes and glistened with aromatic oils. Kasper could see that he was being ignored in favour of a chessboard that lay between them. He hated chess. Although not as much as he hated sitting opposite a man who was lying fully exposed, propped on one elbow and flaunting a penis large enough to merit its own cushion.

THE TERRACOTTA WARRIOR

Every detail sang of care and devotion to the sculptor's art - from the cruel quirk of the lips to the texture on the boiled-leather plates riveted together to form articulated armour.
"What is he?" breathed Sol. "I never saw the like."
"A terracotta warrior. He has guarded the entrance to the mausoleum of the First Emperor for the last two thousand years."
"Terracotta, you say? Then he's nowt but a gurt flowerpot-man."

LEMON MAN

The being blinked slowly, his long gold eyelashes glinting. "I must introduce myself. I am a principality of the Third Choir. You will follow me." He strode away, leaving a silvery line of footsteps in the dew. John noticed then the wings sprouting from between the principality's shoulder blades; small and inchoate, like vestigial organs or something intended for purely symbolic purposes.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Four Novellas - Five Stars, 23 Sep 2008
By Catherine J Gardner (Liverpool, England) - See all my reviews
Fourtold is a collection of four novellas, which refuse to be pigeon-holed into any one genre, scraped from the weird mind of Michael Stone.

SAN FERRY ANN is, in my opinion, the most haunting of the four stories. Set during the great influenza pandemic that swept Europe in 1918, Spencer and Mackenzie are reluctant to return to their pre-war lives in England and Australia. There are flashes of magic and darkness (especially when we journey back to the trenches of WW1) as our heroes stop to help a sick girl and she in turn helps them.

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF KASPER CLARK is my favourite story. A surreal tale about a man who goes to a special clinic to have his mouth removed from his forehead and placed back on his chin. A funny, dark tale that proves that no matter how odd the method of reconstruction (no plastics are involved) it can become very, very addictve - just ask Jigsaw.

THE TERRACOTTA WARRIOR is a good old-fashioned monster story set in the early 20th century. Solomon Barley, an insurance assessor, arrives on his motorbike at the ancestral home of Charles Morris who has just taken delivery of a terracotta statue that he has had shipped from China. Both men soon discover that something unnatural hides within the statue and it is looking for a fight. Creepy and unsettling, this tale will make you look twice at the Emperor's famous terracotta army. In fact, I'm sure I can hear their boots marching even as I type this. (*reviewer shudders*)

LEMON MAN is both the most bizarre and the most normal story in the collection. It is a story in two parts. We have the trials of the narcoleptic Russell who is dealing with sleep paralysis and the break up of his marriage, nestling alongside Heaven and its angels. I don't know what else to say other than read it.

With Fourtold, Michael Stone proves a master and diverse storyteller who I get the feeling has a love of classic motorcycles.
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