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Antique Dust
| Author: | Robert Westall |
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Valancourt Books, 2015 Viking Press, 1989 Viking UK, 1989 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Ghosts Occult |
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Synopsis
'Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the body, and the dealer comes for the rest. I deal in dead men's clocks, pipes and swords. Passing through my hands, they give off joy, loneliness, fear... I have known more evil in a set of false teeth than in any so-called haunted house in England.'
So speaks Geoff Ashden, a regular guy trying to make an honest living as an antique dealer, but who has an uncanny knack for finding cursed objects and haunted places: a sinister Georgian clock carved with obscene and Satanic designs, a hideous doll with deadly powers, a pair of old spectacles that let their wearer see a little too clearly, an ugly house with a terrifying secret, a church full of graffiti scrawled in decomposing human flesh.
Contents:
- The Devil and Clocky Watson - (1989) - novelette by Robert Westall
- The Doll - (1989) - novelette by Robert Westall
- The Last Day of Miss Dorinda Molyneaux - (1989) - novelette by Robert Westall
- The Dumbledore - (1989) - short story by Robert Westall
- The Woolworth Spectacles - (1989) - short story by Robert Westall
- Portland Bill - (1989) - short story by Robert Westall
- The Ugly House - (1989) - novelette by Robert Westall
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