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The Eve of St Eligius 2018, One: Eldritch Tales from Tom East - Volume One (Paperback)
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The Eve of St Eligius 2018, One: Eldritch Tales from Tom East - Volume One (Paperback)
Series: Eldritch Collections, 1
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NEW EDITION AVAILABLE NOVEMBER, 2019 The stories in The Eve of St
Eligius - 22 of them in 76,000 words - may be described in a
shorthand way as `dark' but this belies their variety in terms of
darkness, location, time setting, length and other ways. For
example, the opener entitled Guardian, a story of an encounter a
few months after WWII, could only be described as dark, but Yellow
Eyes, the fourth story, although donning the traditional clothing
of many stories of the supernatural, wears it in an optimistic
(and, I hope, original) way. Some of the other stories do a similar
thing. The First and Last Letter, based on actual events in the
Smalls Lighthouse off the Pembrokeshire coast at the turn of the
18th and 19th centuries, is told in just a few pages, though that
didn't prevent it from forming the key part of an opera libretto.
This opera, For Those in Peril, was produced in Illinois in 2018.
In contrast, three of the stories are of novella length. You may
think this is appropriate in at least the instance of Contract of
One Thousand, where the protagonist has a lifespan of 239 years.
There are no Dracula castles here but you will find some unusual
centrepieces for the stories: an ashtray in Memento, a modern car
in Safety First, a decommissioned GPO telephone box in Waxlow and
Lilac, and so on. If you're looking for something different, this
is the place to look.
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