Short Story Collections

A collection of 14 short stories, that details the ways in which we contrive to treat each other cruelly. The subjects range from a business-man who awakes one morning to find everyone hates him, to a young woman who must surrender her virginity to an enemy in order to fulfil her family's destiny.

14 illustrated, worst-scenario anxiety tales, laced with black humour. Everyday humdrum situations escalate into cataclysmic horror, in stories with titles such as "The Vintage Tablemat Collection of the Living Dead", "Norman Wisdom and the Angel of Death", and "Dale and Wayne go Shopping".

Welcome to Christopher Fowler's world. A place where people get killed in the most surprising ways. By a cocktail cabinet falling out of the sky. By a box of free-range eggs in a supermarket. By a basket of laundry, by an airline ticket, by the buildings themselves. It's a world where bizarre horrors and black comedy cheerfully co-exist. Where the innocent suffer, the guilty go unpunished, and 'the only way you can be safe is by staying very, very still'. Twenty-one stories, including personal favourites and brand-new tales, uncut, unexpected and sometimes quite unsanitary, from a world teetering on the edge of madness. 'Style novelist of the year' SUNDAY TIMES