Bought at a post birthday breakfast bookfest at the Amorous Cat Bookshop on Lark Lane. If you come to Liverpool please visit them as they are the best independent book stockists in the area and are very friendly and helpful. Or alternatively check them out at www.amcat.supanet.com to buy books from their website.

This book is on the 1001 list so i'll read and release it soon.

*applause*
Once again those good old boys from the days of "classic" literature show everyone how it's done without the aid of special effects, bells and whistles and ludicrous vampire based sex scenes (any who has ever seen or had Tru blood described to them will know what i'm talking about). This is a great book of short stories (Green Tea, The Familiar, Mr Justice Harbottle, The Room in Le Dragon Volant and Carmilla) all linked by the fact that they are case studies brought to the attention of Dr Martin Hesselius who investigates medical cases with a hint of the paranormal. Hesselius is clearly ahead of his time when it comes to investigating X-Files and seems to be a one man Mulder/Scully hybrid with Mulder's nose for the supernatural and Scully's medical accumen. All of the stories are quite gripping and in some places a tiny bit scary although none of them sent me screaming into the night. The best one is Carmilla which is possibly better than Dracula and pips the Count to the publication post by 25 years. This book gets 5 stars for presenting "cheese-free" horror, although I might deduct half a star for The Room in Le Dragon Volant as the only supernatural thing in that story is how scarily gullible some men can be at the presentation of a well turned ankle and a pretty face. This gets into my top 20 from the 1001 books list.

This 1001 book is now travelling on to kingfan30 - hope you find this book suitably terrifying!

Thank you so much for sending this book, I look forward to reading it after such a recommendation x

20 Oct 11 - Goodness it has taken me a while to read this! Normally I can read no matter what is going on in the background (TV, office chatter), but for this book I found I needed all my concentration, possibly because of the language. That said, I did enjoy this collection of stories. The Room In Le Dragon Volant was my least favourite, it was quite long in comparison to the other stories, the main character was easily led and the ending felt very rushed to me. My favourite was Carmilla, a very creepy story and although I could see where it was heading it did not spoil it in anyway.

On its was to OZ

Look what turned up in today's mail - and we thought it was long gone!
It's been so long, I've forgotten what, apart from read, I'm supposed to do with it. Are there any plans for it's future?

Finally got around to this one, and it's taken ages to read. I rate it above Uncle Silas.

For the book buffet - or wild release.

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