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“Life must go on, yes, but in the end—after the end—life was not important, just pictures on a screen, absorbing for as long as they lasted, causing us to weep and laugh, perhaps, but when the images are gone we step out blinking into the light.” - WhitstableThis beautiful edition contains three very different stories. You can resonate with them all in their own way. There is Whitstable which will pull at your heart strings, Leytonstone which will give you the creeps and Netherwood which will le...
'The Dark Masters' is a triptych of novellas, each of them seamlessly blending fact and fiction in their portraits of three 'dark masters' from the worlds of horror: Peter Cushing, Alfred Hitchcock and Aleister Crowley. The novellas may depict imaginary episodes in the lives of these characters, but the author's knowledge of each of them is so deep and intimate that it is not enough to say the he wears his learning lightly: whereas a lesser writer would tell a story with grafted on biographical
Okay, you could argue this is not a horror book. Why? Well, it's 3 fictional stories inspired by 4 real characters. Peter Cushing. Alfred Hitchcock. Dennis Wheatley and Alistair Crowley. However, as these are all Dark Masters I think this book in relevant to our genre. The first story 'Whitstable' is set in the seventies where Peter Cushing, in the minds of grief, bumps into a kid who recognizes him as Van Helsing from the Hammer movies and wants his to help to destroy a vampire. The second stor...
The Dark Masters Trilogy (2018) by Stephen Volk, containing the following novellas:Whitstable - 1971 (2013): The first of the three fictional novellas featuring real people stars Peter Cushing, days after losing his beloved wife to emphysema in 1971. While sitting on the beach near his home in Whitstable, Cushing is approached by a boy who thinks Cushing IS Van Helsing, vampire fighter and nemesis of Dracula. And the boy believes he is being preyed on by a vampire -- his stepfather.The truth is
An utterly fantastic trilogy of novellas by Stephen Volk (who might easily claim to be a 'Dark Master' himself). The weakest of the three is almost certainly 'Leytonstone', featuring a young Alfred Hitchcock, but the fact that this is still an engaging and thrilling read gives you some idea of the quality of the others. 'Whitstable' provides a touching and detailed vignette from the later life of Peter Cushing, but it's 'Netherwood' that closes things off in true 'Dark Master' style, as Aleister...
Although I already own a third of this collection ("Whitstable") I just knew that this book would be an unmissable purchase, and I am glad to write that my assumption was correct.This is a collection of novellas, wrapped up in a rather splendid hardback courtesy of PS Publishing with gorgeous design and art from Pedro Marques, that highlight three persons whom shaped Volk's love of genre, from crime to horror.The aforementioned "Whitstable" focuses on an ailing Peter Cushing, spending his reclus...
