Your Place is in the Shadows Six Short Stories edition by Charlie Williams Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Six stories from Charlie Williams, renowned author of the Mangel series. An ill-starred young man is frustrated by a faulty lucky amulet. A new lodger introduces two flatmates to a card game with stakes too high for any gambler. A divorced dad gets some late-night advice down the telephone line from the late Stanley Kubrick. Noir, horror and a streak of black humour a mile wide merge in these stories. This is a world whose inhabitants cling to hope but can't seem to escape the shadows.
PRAISE FOR CHARLIE WILLIAMS
"So original that other writers must be gnashing their teeth in jealousy"
- The Guardian
"Charlie Williams has created a stunningly original noir world of his own"
- Jason Starr
"Deserves attention for sheer originality and complete disregard for conventional plot"
- Sunday Business Post
"Possibly the best British writer working today. He is the ideal adult humourist - someone whose jokes kick for the gut and often say far more than you realise upon a first reading - and he is also an astute modern commentator, someone with something to say about the darkness that is modern life"
- Russel D McLean
"Even through all of his offbeat humour, there is no mistaking that Charlie Williams is a writer who has something to say"
- Nicholas Blincoe
Your Place is in the Shadows Six Short Stories edition by Charlie Williams Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
I enjoy horror fiction. I enjoy noir fiction. And if you're like me, then chances are you're going to enjoy what Charlie Williams serves up with this collection of six short stories.I really didn't know what to expect from this British author at the outset, as this was purely an impulse buy on the Kindle Store last year. I saw the name on a recommendation list, the price was right, so I took the plunge. Genre-blending is something I really appreciate when it's done well, and it's done very well in each of these stories.
For me, the standouts would have to be "Some Help from Stanley" about a divorcee receiving some much-needed advice about the trajectory of his life via telephone calls from the late Stanley Kubrick. A great bit of psychological suspense as Kubrick's advice sends the poor bloke down a wayward path. Then there was "Punchbag" and the drunken roughneck who wanders the streets on his usual routine of pub food, pub crawls, pub brawls, only to come face to face with the embodiment of every scrap he's ever been in, a man who calls himself Punchbag.
If you have trouble with vernacular that isn't the Queen's English, you might be out of your depth with a couple stories. You know, like if you have to watch Guy Ritchie movies with sub-titles, that sort of thing. But if your reading level is up to snuff and you like your crime fiction dipped in horror, then you are going to absolutely love this collection. I've got a novella from Williams called Graven Image and I have a hunch I'm going to gobble that one up like a kebab when I get round to it.
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Your Place is in the Shadows Six Short Stories edition by Charlie Williams Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
I'm a fan of Charlie Williams work, especially his Royston Blake-Mangel series, (4 read one to go at some point) though it's been a few years now since I read anything by him.
Your Place in the Shadows was enjoyable, though to be truthful a couple of the stories I didn't really understand. Can you still enjoy the journey if you don't quite get the destination? In Charlie Williams' hands I can.
Sh*thead was the pick of the bunch, closely followed by Punchbag.
Sh*thead is a card game, the object of which is to lose all of one's cards, with the last player to do so being the "sh*thead". In Williams tale, our card game between flatmates has a greater consequence for the loser than having to deal the next hand. Nightmares and curses.
Punchbag - big, bad, town-bully Brian gets him comeuppance at the hands of Eggy Boyle or what's he's now become. The town needs a new punchbag.
Sweet and Tender Hooligan.....a burglary goes horribly wrong.
Your Place is in the Shadows.......Tump entrusts slow-witted Jack with The Holy Grail!
Some Help from Stanley....... what can you expect when Stanley Kubrick rings you from beyond the grave at 3am in the morning offering familial advice.
The Threat of Sleep.......dreams, darkness and torment.
A strangely weird collection - horror-cum-noir,
4 from 5
Charlie Williams is a top bloke and he once bought me a cappuccino in Borders book shop in Milton Keynes, before proffering a collectible but extremely hard-to-find manuscript on me gratis!
Read in April, 2016
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I enjoyed reading these stories
I enjoy horror fiction. I enjoy noir fiction. And if you're like me, then chances are you're going to enjoy what Charlie Williams serves up with this collection of six short stories.
I really didn't know what to expect from this British author at the outset, as this was purely an impulse buy on the last year. I saw the name on a recommendation list, the price was right, so I took the plunge. Genre-blending is something I really appreciate when it's done well, and it's done very well in each of these stories.
For me, the standouts would have to be "Some Help from Stanley" about a divorcee receiving some much-needed advice about the trajectory of his life via telephone calls from the late Stanley Kubrick. A great bit of psychological suspense as Kubrick's advice sends the poor bloke down a wayward path. Then there was "Punchbag" and the drunken roughneck who wanders the streets on his usual routine of pub food, pub crawls, pub brawls, only to come face to face with the embodiment of every scrap he's ever been in, a man who calls himself Punchbag.
If you have trouble with vernacular that isn't the Queen's English, you might be out of your depth with a couple stories. You know, like if you have to watch Guy Ritchie movies with sub-titles, that sort of thing. But if your reading level is up to snuff and you like your crime fiction dipped in horror, then you are going to absolutely love this collection. I've got a novella from Williams called Graven Image and I have a hunch I'm going to gobble that one up like a kebab when I get round to it.
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