The Hungry Lens
And Other Strange Tales
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2024
202 pages
978-1-0686459-0-7 (ISBN)
Description
Scary Tales...
This collection of fantastic and haunting stories includes ghosts, horror, fantasy and contemporary fairy tales; told with ingenuity and wry humour.
Children climb a staircase in the woods and disappear.
A crow becomes a reluctant bride.
A silent movie star is eaten away by the camera.
A haunted inkwell reveals hidden desires.
...Disturbing Dreams
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Person
Matthew Pegg lives in Leicestershire in a house full of books and cats. He has been an actor, director, graphic designer, drama teacher, and has run education departments in regional theatres.He began his writing career as a playwright. His plays include Escaping Alice, produced by York Theatre Royal in 2012; a street theatre show about Nicaragua; a one man adaptation of Twelfth Night; a puppet play that toured to care homes; and Ant Farm, a play for youth theatres set in an ant colony. He began to write fiction during an MA course in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University, where his fiction tutor was the late author Graham Joyce. Since then his short stories have been published in a number of anthologies from publishers in the UK and the US.
Content
The Well Wisher
Crow Girl
Ghost Walk
The Snout
Chalk Marks
Crocodile Blues
Meet Me Beneath the Cherry Tree
The Hungry Lens
Lady Virginia on the Lam
The Peacock House
The Samson Museum
Small Sacrifices
Andrew in the Maze
Wolfskin
The Bouncing Policemen
The Tower in the Garden
What We Caught in September
Interview Day
Secrets
March Hays
Story Notes
The Author
