Dark Tales From A Scholar's Study - Paperback

by A. N. Donaldson (Author)

Baroque killings in a Soviet city of murderers on the shores of Lake Baikal. Suspected vampirism in the lost cemeteries of Calcutta. The terrible secret of the mosque of Al-Shirazi in the Karakum desert. Re-animated corpses in Cairo, Hittite curses in London, hungry Chinese ghosts, and the Japanese art of murder and suicide. This book is a Devilish, labyrinthine collection of antiquarian horror. 'Abomination takes many forms, in beasts as in men.'

Author Biography

A. N. Donaldson studied Philosophy and Economics at New College, Oxford. He currently works for the British Council. His other published works include Prospero's Mirror (2013). Visit his website at: www.andonaldson.co.uk