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Perhaps no writer of the early 20th century had a better knowledge of London than Thomas Burke (1886-1945), and his collection Night-Pieces (1935) contains eighteen of his most haunting tales of that immense city's dark back alleys, shadowy courts, and mysterious houses. In Burke's London, anything might happen. You might turn round a corner and find yourself back in your childhood. A casual drink with a stranger might end with you - quite literally - losing your head. That pale, slightly sinister-looking man sitting across the restaurant might be a murdered corpse, returned from the dead. And those footsteps you hear following you as you walk along a foggy street, faintly lit by gaslight... well, let's just say you had better not look behind you...

A groundbreaking and undeservedly neglected volume, Night-Pieces contains a wide variety of weird and outré tales, ranging from stories of crime and murder to tales of ghosts, zombies, and the supernatural.

Contents:

Events at Wayless-Wagtail - (1935) - shortfiction
Father and Son - (1935) - shortfiction
Funspot - (1935) - shortfiction
Jack Wapping - (1935) - shortfiction
Johnson Looked Back - (1935) - short story
Miracle in Suburbia - (1935) - shortfiction
Murder Under the Crooked Spire - (1935) - shortfiction
One Hundred Pounds - (1935) - shortfiction
The Black Courtyard - (1935) - short story
The Gracious Ghosts - (1935) - shortfiction
The Hollow Man - (1933) - short story
The Horrible God - (1934) - short story
The Lonely Inn - (1935) - short story
The Man Who Lost His Head - (1935) - short story
The Watcher - (1935) - shortfiction
Two Gentlemen - (1935) - shortfiction
Uncle Exekiel's Long Sight - (1935) - shortfiction
Yesterday Street - (1935) - short story

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