Name: The Croquet Player
Author: H.G. Wells
ISBN: 9781419127342

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Something is horribly wrong in the remote English village of Cainsmarsh. An elderly woman stiffens in dread at her own shadow; a terrified farmer murders a scarecrow; food prepared by others is eyed with suspicion; family pets are bludgeoned to death; loving couples are devoured by rage and violence. A spirit-corrupting evil pervades the land, infesting the minds of those who call Cainsmarsh home. Is this vision real, or a paranoid fantasy generated by an even darker, worldwide threat? And is the call to resist the danger itself a danger? These are questions that disturb the calm of an indolent croquet player who happens to hear the tale of the unlucky village.

H. G. Wells's ambiguous story of horror is a modern classic, a prophetic, disturbing glimpse of the primitive distrust and violence that gnaw at the heart of the modern world.

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Author H.G. Wells

Published Jan 1936

Main Genre Fantasy

Pages 109

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Oct 2004 University of Nebraska Press ISBN13 9780803298422 ISBN10 0803298420

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Sep 2016 Read Books ISBN13 9781473333239 ISBN10 1473333237

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Dec 1983 Telegraph Books ISBN13 9780897609517 ISBN10 0897609514

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Sep 2016 H. G. Wells Library ISBN10 B01LZGKPPJ

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The Croquet Player