Break of Dark - Hardcover
Is there a barrier that divides the dark unknown from the everyday world around us?
If so, is it broken sometimes by the dead returning, by the undead, or by alien creatures?
What else could account for the chance meeting (or was it?) between a young student and hitch-hiker who turns out to be so much stranger than she seems? Why else should three successive crews flying a Second World War bomber - Blackham's Wimpey - be driven to madness, despair, even to death, though the plane returns from each mission without a scratch? Who are Fred, Alice and Aunty Lou; the figments of Peter's imagination that become a real life nightmare for Roger and Biddy?
There is St Austin Friars, too: a church without a congregation - until a burial service, oddly arranged a month ahead, is attended by a sinister assortment of the living and the dead. And Sergeant Nice, an ordinary policeman in an ordinary seaside town faced with a series of quite extraordinary thefts; the work surely, of no human hand.
Chilling, but often humorous as well, these stories creep up on you and take you by surprise.
If so, is it broken sometimes by the dead returning, by the undead, or by alien creatures?
What else could account for the chance meeting (or was it?) between a young student and hitch-hiker who turns out to be so much stranger than she seems? Why else should three successive crews flying a Second World War bomber - Blackham's Wimpey - be driven to madness, despair, even to death, though the plane returns from each mission without a scratch? Who are Fred, Alice and Aunty Lou; the figments of Peter's imagination that become a real life nightmare for Roger and Biddy?
There is St Austin Friars, too: a church without a congregation - until a burial service, oddly arranged a month ahead, is attended by a sinister assortment of the living and the dead. And Sergeant Nice, an ordinary policeman in an ordinary seaside town faced with a series of quite extraordinary thefts; the work surely, of no human hand.
Chilling, but often humorous as well, these stories creep up on you and take you by surprise.
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'A master of the unexpected, the macabre and the beguiling twist of plot. Westall is at his most provocative and intriguing with this collection.' VAL BIERMAN
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Chilling and utterly absorbing, this short story collection grabs hold of the imagination and doesn't let go.
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- PublisherBodley Head Children's Books
- Publication date1900
- ISBN 10 0370308204
- ISBN 13 9780370308203
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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Break of Dark (1st Bodley Head edition in near fine dust jacket)
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Bodley Head Children's Books
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ISBN 10: 0370308204
ISBN 13: 9780370308203
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Published by Bodley Head Children's Books in 1984, here is the first hardback printing (in this edition) of Robert Westall's BREAK OF DARK Red cloth binding, gilt lettering, 183 pages, the book is in near fine condition with a few bumps to the front board and some very minor light browning throughout. The dust jacket is also near fine. Seller Inventory # 11905
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