Steve Duffy and Ian Rodwell

Steve Duffy and Ian Rodwell is the author of The Five Quarters.

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The Five Quarters,i encountered something . . . let us say, something not quite ordinary. . . .” “Mr Gliddon’s Confession” sets the stage for future meetings, at which talk inevitably turns to the supernatural, to the disgust of the disbelieving Mr Wilde. He attempts to find a natural explanation for everything; but as the stories continue, the events described become more difficult to explain away. Finally Wilde finds himself occupying, with great reluctance, centre stage in a chain of supernatural events which concerns all Five Quarters: one which also has potentially grave consequences for England as a whole. . . . In his introduction, co-author Ian Rodwell writes that all the best tales of the uncanny contain “an image that resonates and disturbs in a way that you don’t, and maybe never should, understand.” All the stories in The Five Quarters contain such an image, from a kneeling figure spied on a desolate Provençal hillside to an abandoned pier guarded by a sinister figure on the coast of England: images which will linger in the memory long after the book is closed.

Edition Details

• Dust Jacket illustrated by Paul Lowe.
• This is a full clothbound edition limited to 500 copies.

External Links

• The Five Quarters. ISFDB entry for The Five Quarters