Dark: Stories of Madness, Murder and the Supernatural (Adrenaline S.)

by Clint Willis (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $7.99

  Elizabeth Gaskell locks us in a room with a woman who is losing her mind -- slowly; Will Self offers a vision of hell that would frighten Hannibel Lecter; Patrick McGrath gives us the world's worst mother and the darkness in which she lives; Thomas Harris introduces you to a madman who will chew off your lips, tie you to a wheelchair, and set you on fire... for starters; Iain Banks shows us evil in the mind of a child, ruined by the malice of a father. Bret Easton Ellis abandons us to the rage of a young man whose brutality will haunt your nightmares long after you've forgotten literature's other psychopaths.Like all Adrenaline books Dark includes only first-rate prose, offering a vision of our capacity for evil -- and a reminder of how much we love to be frightened.