The Croquet Player - Bison Frontiers of Imagination
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780803298422 |
Publisher: | Bison Books |
Imprint: | Bison Books |
Pub date: | 01 Oct 2004 |
DEWEY: | 823.912 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 109 |
Weight: | 113g |
Height: | 206mm |
Width: | 129mm |
Spine width: | 6mm |