The Best of Gerald Kersh - Gerald Kersh
'[Gerald Kersh] is a story-teller of an almost vanished kind - though the proper description is perhaps a teller of 'rattling good yarns'... A chess champion walks in his sleep and destroys the games he has so carefully planned...' TLS 'Beneath his talented lightness and fantasy, Gerald Kersh is a serious man...
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''[Gerald Kersh] is a story-teller of an almost vanished kind - though the proper description is perhaps a teller of ''rattling good yarns''... He is fascinated by the grotesque and the bizarre, by the misfits of life, the angry, the down-and-outs and the damned. A girl of eight commits a murder. Some circus freaks are shipwrecked on an island. A chess champion walks in his sleep and destroys the games he has so carefully planned...'' TLS ''Beneath his talented lightness and fantasy, Gerald Kersh is a serious man... [He] has the ability... to create a world which is not realistic and which is yet entirely credible and convincing on its own fantastic terms.'' New York Times ''Mr Kersh tells a story; as such, rather better than anybody else.'' Pamela Hansford Johnson, Telegraph