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Gerald Kersh
Book List in Order: 20 titles
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Night and the City
- 1950
- / Suspense
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Harry Fabian has a dream to become the top wrestling promoter in London, but he has a problem: he needs money. Not too much -- only one hundred quid -- but it might as well be a million because he needs the money by the end of the week. What's more, ...
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Prelude to a Certain Midnight
- Jul-2005
- / Espionage
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Prelude to a Certain Midnight, first published in 1947, is a novel of the rise and fall of a group of patrons of a neighborhood bar on a side street of London’s East End. In the midst of the looming World War II, a 10-year-old Jewish girl is murde...
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Men Without Bones
- Mar-2007
- / General Fiction
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Venture into this alarmingly convincing world, meet the horse whose stubbornness changed history, or the man damned to everlasting love, or the murderer who confessed... and confessed... and confessed. Learn, too the secret of the Mona Lisa's smile, ...
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Men Without Bones and Other Haunting Inhabitants of the Wide, Weird World
- Oct-2012
- / General Fiction
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Venture into this alarmingly convincing world, meet the horse whose stubbornness changed history, or the man damned to everlasting love, or the murderer who confessed...and confessed...and confessed. Learn, too the secret of the Mona Lisa's smile, or...
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Men Without Bones and Other Haunting Inhabitants
- Apr-2013
- / Horror
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Learn, too the secret of the Mona Lisa's smile, or what really happened to Ambrose Bierce. And ponder, if you can, the case of Simple Simon, who lost the only important thing he had-and never even missed it. Lean back, relax, take a long look at the ...
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Nightshade and Damnations
- Apr-2013
- / General Fiction
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"No mortal can write this well." - Harlan Ellison
"Kersh has a strange, perverted sense of genius. And how he can write." - Virginia Kirkus
"Gerald Kersh had a wild imagination matched by a vivid, near-hallucinatory style. Many of h... -
Fowlers End
- Aug-2013
- / General Fiction
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"One of the great comic novels of the century." - Anthony Burgess
"[A]n exuberant romp with a parcel of grotesques in a truly horrible nor'-nor'-easterly suburb of London . . . great fun." - Manchester Guardian
"Rabelaisian, vigorou... -
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Sergeant Nelson of the Guards
- Sep-2013
- / General Fiction
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Night and the City (1938) made Gerald Kersh's reputation, but it was as a war novelist that he reached a wide readership in 1942, via a pair of books about British army recruits, led by Sergeant Bill Nelson, preparing to see service in France. This F...
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The Best of Gerald Kersh
- Oct-2013
- / General Fiction
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'[Gerald Kersh] is a story-teller of an almost vanished kind - though the proper description is perhaps a teller of 'rattling good yarns'... He is fascinated by the grotesque and the bizarre, by the misfits of life, the angry, the down-and-outs and t...
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The Horrible Dummy and Other Stories
- Oct-2013
- / General Fiction
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'It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially, perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of ...
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The Implacable Hunter
- Nov-2013
- / General Fiction
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'[This] is the story of the beginning and the end of St Paul, that most complicated and worrying of all the saints. The narrator is Diomed, a colonial officer stationed at Tarsus, enlightened, intelligent, a great fraterniser with the patrician nativ...
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The Song of the Flea
- Nov-2013
- / General Fiction
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With The Song Of The Flea (1948) Gerald Kersh revisited the demi-monde of his famous Night And The City; but this novel concerns a writer, striving doggedly to make his living.'A remarkable novel... with this book Mr Kersh has taken a big step forwar...
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The Thousand Deaths of Mr Small
- Nov-2013
- / General Fiction
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'The Thousand Deaths Of Mr Small is the best novel that Gerald Kersh has yet written... Charles Small, successful advertising expert and miserable man, turns over in his mind the 'stinking, sour, stagnant, untransmitted mass' which is his life... Thi...
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On an Odd Note
- Jan-2015
- / Science Fiction
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"Gerald Kersh had a wild imagination matched by a vivid, near-hallucinatory style. Many of his concepts are so original that they blur the distinction between fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and horror, but the cumulative impact of his short stori...
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Clock Without Hands
- Feb-2015
- / General Fiction
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"How easy Mr. Kersh makes it all seem! How admirably he sets the scene, the atmosphere . . . very neatly done." - The Observer
"Three short, rough novels, hard-hitting, battering the emotions without compunction . . . Kersh tells a story, as... -
The Great Wash
- Mar-2015
- / Thriller
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"An extravaganza . . . fertile invention and forceful style . . . Mr. Kersh's many admirers will undoubtedly devour this highly flavoured hotch-potch with avidity." - Julian Maclaren-Ross, Sunday Times
"[F]irst-rate Kersh, richly peopled wit... -
Neither Man Nor Dog
- Apr-2015
- / General Fiction
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This collection of 37 stories by a master of the form features tales that are sometimes funny, sometimes violent, and sometimes weird and nightmarish: in short, it is quintessential Gerald Kersh. Kersh (1911-1968) published more than thirty books, in...
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The Dead Look On
- Nov-2019
- / General Fiction
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The Dead Look On, first published in 1943, is a fictional account of the World War II Nazi-atrocity in Lidice, Czechoslovakia (called Dudicks in the book). The novel closely follows actual events which took place shortly after the assassination of Re...