Bøger af Thomas Burke

Monica Minasi kan danse, så kineserkvarterets beskidte gade forvandles til en balsal, og folk omkring hende glemmer sulten og kulden for et øjeblik. Derfor bliver hun kaldt Twinkletoes, og man spår hende en lys fremtid fjernt fra opvæksten i det fattige Limehouse-distrikt i London, hvor hun bor med sin mor og far. Men det er ikke altid let at være et menneske, alle andre beundrer, misunder eller ønsker at udnytte, og Twinks falder allerede i en ung alder i hænderne på mennesker med slette intentioner. Den britiske forfatter Thomas Burke (1886-1945) levede i London hele sit liv og søgte som forfatter at fange byens flygtige energi. Det var særligt kinakvarteret i East End, det såkaldte Limehouse-distrikt, der fortryllede Burke og inspirerede ham til at fortælle. Hans bøger beretter om elendigheden i underklassen, om fattigdom, krig, mord, perversion og lyssky forretninger, men også om vrangsidens eksotiske og magiske skær. Der findes en dunkel poesi under røde lanterner, i de beskidte gyder, kulørt silke, opiumrus og forbudt begær, som Burke havde et særligt blik for og mesterligt omsatte til litteratur – digtsamlinger, essays, romaner og noveller.

American culture is strange-and appears even stranger after a hiatus. Cue Everett, back in Chicagoland after living in China. His father has just died, and re-entry to his former life is increasingly complicated. On top of that, while he was abroad everyone Everett cared about dove off the deep end. Exhibit A: Everett's mom, recently widowed, with a newfound faith in healing crystals and a ponytailed guru. Exhibit B: former roommate Dino's newly ascetic lifestyle. Increasingly drifting and desperate, Everett signs on to an unconventional venture: the high-stakes world of mushroom smuggling.Do the ends justify the means? What, even, are the ends? Eastbound into the Cosmos is the story of Everett's attempt to process the longing, the grief, the weirdness. Along the way he discovers the weird in himself, which may just be what ultimately frees him.

This volume presents the weird fiction of the British writer Thomas Burke (1886-1945), author of the scintillating horror collection Night-Pieces (1935). But Burke-celebrated for his evocative tales of London's Chinatown, gathered in Limehouse Nights and other volumes-wrote other weird tales, scattered through his many other collections. One of the most distinctive is "Johnson Looked Back," a tour de force of second-person narration. This volume constitutes the first occasion when Burke's complete supernatural writing has been gathered in a single volume. The Classics of Gothic Horror series seeks to reprint novels and stories from the leading writers of weird fiction over the past two centuries or more. Ever since the Gothic novels of the late 18th century, supernatural horror has been a slender but provocative contribution to Western literature. Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, the Victorian ghost story writers, the "titans" of the early twentieth century (Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft), the Weird Tales writers, and many others contributed to the development and enrichment of weird fiction as a literary genre, and their work deserves to be enshrined in comprehensive, textually accurate editions. S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction, has done exactly that in establishing this series. Using scholarly resources honed over decades of wide-ranging research, he has assembled volumes featuring not only the complete weird writings of the authors in question, but exhaustive bio-critical introductions and bibliographical data.

Thomas Burke's 'The Hands of Mr. Ottermole' is widely regarded as one of the best detective stories of the thirties. First published in 1931, Burke's tale was later adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Many of the well known western and detective short stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Många känsliga ämnen ryms i denna underhållande miniklassiker av Thomas Burke. Den kinesiske immigranten Chen har kommit till Limelight district i London. Här bor de fattiga och utslagna, däribland en försupen boxare och hans adoptivdotter. Lilla Lucy smyger runt på gatorna, osynlig för alla, tills Chen en dag slås av hennes poetiska uppenbarelse.Broken Blossoms filmatiserades 1919 och rönte stora framgångar, mycket tack vare den uttrycksfulla stumfilmsskådespelaren Lillian Gishs insatser. Thomas Burke (1886-1945) var en brittisk författare som skildrade det hårda livet i det mångkulturella London.