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Here comes the fear. Inspired by a lonely vista - white snow, a still blue lake, a castle on a hill - these authors weave their magic. Is it an ancient castle or a modern hotel? Is the horror dressed in darkness waiting in the dungeons, or dressed as an innocent by the side of the lake? The stories play out across the seasons, across the ages, across the stars ... Includes competition winner, The Loop, by novelist Mark Henderson and an invited contribution from guest editor and award-winning horror author, Matt Adcock. This collection is not for the faint hearted. You have been warned. Contains frightfully fear inducing fables by; Matt Adcock Max Bantleman JC Bateman Stephanie Billen Lorraine Childerstone Jeremy Childerstone Bill Davidson Joe Doliczny Peter Ford Jacci Gooding Caroline Hardwick Tansy Hawksley Mark P. Henderson Valerie Moyses Alan R Paine Kester Robert Park Steven Patchett David Stewart John Tolmie

Through physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, Joseph Merrick spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even 19th century sensibilities could take no more. This is the story of a tragic individual and his survival against the odds in Victorian England. schovat popis

Joseph Carey Merrick, born in England on August 5, 1860 or '61, is better known as The Elephant Man. Through horrible physical deformities which were almost impossible to describe, he spent much of his life exhibited as a fairground freak until even nineteenth-century sensibilities could take no more. Hounded, persecuted and starving, he ended up at London’s Liverpool Street Station where he was rescued, housed and fed by the distinguished surgeon Frederick Treves. To Treves’ surprise, he discovered during the course of their friendship that lurking beneath the mass of Merrick's corrupting flesh lived a spirit that was as courageous as it had been tortured, and a nature as gentle and dignified as it had been deprived and tormented. The subject of several books, a Broadway hit, and a film, Joseph Merrick has become part of popular mythology. Here, in this fully revised edition containing new details, are the true and unromantic facts of his life. This is an extraordinary and moving story, set among the brutal realities of the Victorian world, telling of a tragic individual and his survival against overwhelming odds.