Книга: David Stuart Davies «Children of Night: Classic Vampire Stories»

Children of Night: Classic Vampire Stories

Серия: "Tales of Mystery&the Supernatural"

Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori's The Vampyre and James Malcolm Rymer's Varney the Vampyre, a tale which held readers in thrall when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century. As well as these rare stories and those featuring the more well known bloodsuckers such as Le Fanu s Carmilla and Stoker s Dracula, there is a clutch of lesser known but equally frightening tales written by expert practitioners in the art of raising goose pimples. Children of the Night is a volume filled with the rich blood of chilling vampire fiction.

Издательство: "Wordsworth Editions Limited" (2007)

Формат: 125x195, 272 стр.

ISBN: 9781840225464

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David Stuart Davies

David Stuart Davies (born 1946) is a British writer. He worked as a teacher of English before becoming a full-time editor, writer, and playwright. Davies has written extensively about Sherlock Holmes, both fiction and non-fiction.[1] He is the editor of Red Herrings, the monthly in-house publication of the Crime Writers' Association.

Contents

Novels

Sherlock Holmes Adventures

  1. Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair (1991)
  2. The Tangled Skein (1995)
  3. The Scroll of the Dead (1998)
  4. Shadow of the Rat (1999)
  5. The Veiled Detective (2004). Explores the relationship between Holmes, Dr. Watson and Professor Moriarty
  6. The Games Afoot (2008)

Johnny One Eye

  1. Forests of the Night (2000)

Johnny Hawke is removed from the army after a rifle explodes in his face and he looses an eye. Offered a desk job with the police, Johnny sets up as a private investigtor in London. When asked to investigate the disappearance of a young woman things turn dangerous. Could there be a connection between the girl and fading film actor Gordon Moore?

  1. Comes the Dark (2006)
  2. Without Conscience (2008)
  3. Requiem for a Dummy (2009)
  4. The Darkness of Death (2010)

Non-fiction

His non-fiction books about Sherlock Holmes include:

  • Holmes of the Movies: The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes (1977)
  • Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes (1996)
  • Starring Sherlock Holmes: A Century of the Master Detective on Screen (2001, updated 2007)
  • Clued Up on Sherlock (2004)
  • Dancing in the Moonlight: Jeremy Brett - A Celebration (2006)

Plays

His award-winning one-man play Sherlock Holmes - The Last Act[2] is still touring after its premiere at Salisbury Playhouse in 1999. It has played in France, Canada, America, Hong Kong, Malta and all over the British Isles.

In 2009, Big Finish Productions released audio adaptations of his plays The Last Act and The Death and Life.

Other work

He is the editor of several collections for Wordsworth & Collectors Library (Barnes & Noble) including:

  • The Best of Sherlock Holmes
  • Shadows of Sherlock Holmes
  • Stories from the Nineteenth Century
  • Tales of Unease
  • Return From the Dead

His DVD work includes writing and narrating commentaries for the MPI release of the digitally re-mastered Basil Rathbone Holmes films;[3] conducting interviews on the new Jeremy Brett Holmes releases; and with David Jason on A Touch of Frost DVDs.

He is as one-third of literary performance group The Mystery Men, alongside Matthew Booth and M. J. Elliott

References

  1. ^ Chris Hastings and David Bamber (2004-08-02). "Q: When, According to the BBC, is a Repeat not a Repeat? A: When it Appeared on ITV First". The Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/02/08/nitv08.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/02/08/ixhome.html. Retrieved 2008-02-27. 
  2. ^ Karl Meyer (2000-01-19). "The Curious Incident of the Sleuth in the Meantime". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE6D9163DF93AA25752C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2. Retrieved 2008-02-27. 
  3. ^ "Sherlock Holmes Classic Films". BBC Homepage Entertainment. 2005-02-16. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/news/cult/2005/02/16/17080.shtml. Retrieved 2008-02-27. 
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