John Lymington

Give Daddy the Knife, Darling (The John Lymington SciFi/Horror Library #14) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

When John came to the inn, Fear was host. Fear that no one could describe or explain. Fear of a man upstairs, a guest locked in, who would not speak or eat or sleep or move; yet from outside whose locked door the silence moved with weird sensations of life growing within. Life that seemed to have come with the landing of UFOs in the river mist.
"You're a lemming, John," his father had told him. "You're rushing to your own destruction." But he bought the inn and the secret above him anyway; a secret he could not touch or see or hear. He bought the inn knowing it would destroy him, but as he came near to madness he began to realise that the thing upstairs was growing into a knife pointed at the belly of civilisation. He did nothing as he felt the knife pushing through him, skewering him as the first victim of a new invasion. He did nothing. But how can you get away from the edge when you know you must? Or does something push you on, closer, closer?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Piccadilly
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215943670
• Artikelnr.: 75908217

Autorenporträt

John Richard Newton Chance was born in Streatham Hill, London, in 1911, the son of Dick Chance, a managing editor at the Amalgamated Press. He studied to become a civil engineer, and then took up quantity surveying, but gave it up at 21 to become a full-time writer. He wrote for his father's titles, including "Dane, the Dog Detective" for Illustrated Chips, and a number of stories for the Sexton Blake Library and The Thriller Library. He went on to write over 150 science fiction, mystery and children's books and numerous short stories under various names, including John Lymington, John Drummond, David C. Newton, Jonathan Chance and Desmond Reid. Including 20+ SF potboilers, adding that he "made a steady income by delivering thrillers to Robert Hale (the UK publisher) at a chapter a week". His novel Night of the Big Heat was adapted to television in 1960 and to film, starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, in 1967.