Bøker av Thomas Burke

"Nights in London" by Thomas Burke is a collection of short stories that provides a vivid and atmospheric portrayal of life in London during the early 20th century. Thomas Burke, a skilled storyteller, takes readers on a journey through the city's streets, introducing a diverse cast of characters and capturing the essence of urban life.Set in the working-class neighborhoods of London, Burke's stories offer glimpses into the lives, struggles, and dreams of ordinary people. The narratives are infused with a sense of realism, and Burke's keen observations highlight the nuances of human interactions in the bustling metropolis.Each story in "Nights in London" serves as a literary snapshot, depicting the social and cultural landscape of the time. Burke's writing style is both evocative and compassionate, creating a compelling mosaic of London's diverse communities.This collection is recommended for readers interested in urban literature, historical fiction, and the exploration of human experiences within the context of a rapidly changing city. "Nights in London" stands as a testament to Thomas Burke's ability to capture the heartbeat of the city and its inhabitants in the early 20th century.

Nights in London, has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

American culture is strange-and appears even stranger after a hiatus. Cue Everett, back in Chicagoland after living in China. His father has just died, and re-entry to his former life is increasingly complicated. On top of that, while he was abroad everyone Everett cared about dove off the deep end. Exhibit A: Everett's mom, recently widowed, with a newfound faith in healing crystals and a ponytailed guru. Exhibit B: former roommate Dino's newly ascetic lifestyle. Increasingly drifting and desperate, Everett signs on to an unconventional venture: the high-stakes world of mushroom smuggling.Do the ends justify the means? What, even, are the ends? Eastbound into the Cosmos is the story of Everett's attempt to process the longing, the grief, the weirdness. Along the way he discovers the weird in himself, which may just be what ultimately frees him.

This volume presents the weird fiction of the British writer Thomas Burke (1886-1945), author of the scintillating horror collection Night-Pieces (1935). But Burke-celebrated for his evocative tales of London's Chinatown, gathered in Limehouse Nights and other volumes-wrote other weird tales, scattered through his many other collections. One of the most distinctive is "Johnson Looked Back," a tour de force of second-person narration. This volume constitutes the first occasion when Burke's complete supernatural writing has been gathered in a single volume. The Classics of Gothic Horror series seeks to reprint novels and stories from the leading writers of weird fiction over the past two centuries or more. Ever since the Gothic novels of the late 18th century, supernatural horror has been a slender but provocative contribution to Western literature. Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, the Victorian ghost story writers, the "titans" of the early twentieth century (Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft), the Weird Tales writers, and many others contributed to the development and enrichment of weird fiction as a literary genre, and their work deserves to be enshrined in comprehensive, textually accurate editions. S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction, has done exactly that in establishing this series. Using scholarly resources honed over decades of wide-ranging research, he has assembled volumes featuring not only the complete weird writings of the authors in question, but exhaustive bio-critical introductions and bibliographical data.

Thomas Burke's 'The Hands of Mr. Ottermole' is widely regarded as one of the best detective stories of the thirties. First published in 1931, Burke's tale was later adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Many of the well known western and detective short stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.