A Twist in the Eye

by

Charles Wilkinson

...I can confidently go on to state that A Twist in the Eye is the most exciting collection of weird fiction (or strange fiction, if you will) that I have read for many years. Moreover, I am confident that after the reader has gone through the tales he or she will be as amazed as I am that Charles Wilkinson is not far better known and appreciated in the field...



- Mark Samuels in his introduction



Throughout the sixteen stories collected in this remarkable book Charles Wilkinson explores themes of place, ritual, identity, death and transmutation with a rare, if not utterly unique, confidence. They are enigmatic but never vague, dreamlike but never illogical, horrifying but only occasionally visceral. Few writers can write ‘weird’ with so convincing a voice.

The full table of contents is as follows:

Introduction by Mark Samuels

Returning

The Human Cosmos

Hidden in the Alphabet

Line of Fire

In His Grandmother’s Coat

Night in the Pink House

Cold Plate

Petrol-saved

The World Without Watercress

Gold in Ash

An Invitation to Worship

The Investigation of Innocence

Choice

A Lesson from the Undergrowth

Watchers in the Wood

Hands

The book is a lithographically printed, 256 page sewn hardback with printed endpapers (by a follower of Bosch), limited to 260 copies. ISBN 978-0-993527821.

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J