Publisher's Synopsis
Twilight Tales is a magical collection of dark fairy tales set in the shadowy woods of urban highways and faceless corridors. Skilfully painted in a Halloween palette of bonfire orange and steely grey, these mystical tales are a journey into an unrelenting darkness where the monsters are the beasts within ourselves... Sister Esau: Beware the wolf, for he walks amongst us, even in the light. So just who is watching the comely Sister Esau as she walks the sterile corridors of the dental hospital with her stainless-steel bowls of teeth? The Cameo: In an old store in Paris, a tourist is fascinated by the cameo of a beautiful girl who seems to be looking right back at him. The True Story of Doctor Foster: An old man seeks for the way back to the tenth dimension in a rain-soaked Gloucester Road. Candy: A journalist goes in search of Violet Rose the rock-maker's daughter under the salt-corroded colonnades of twilight Brighton. But all is not as it seems in this costal underworld, and the lines between reality and fantasy become distinctly blurred in the hot nightclubs of this very erotic tale. The Waiting Room: Somewhere, deep in the festering rain, a little girl sits waiting in the waiting room, curtailing her hunger until someone finally comes. Citronella: A dwarf stalks a tall woman in spiked glass heels around the concrete forests of suburban London "Chilling, atmospheric and erotic. An unholy alliance between Ray Bradbury's The October Country and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber"
