Unforgivable Stories

UK: Pocket Books, 2000; PB.
ISBN-10: 0671022210
ISBN-13: 978-0671022211

With an introduction written by Eugene Byrne.

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A collection of stories which re-open some of the great closed cases of fantasy and horror fiction. Newman explores familiar universes in a new, unusual light, from Dr Jekyll to Dracula, and from a Victorian ghost story to the Paris of Bogart and Bergman.

Table of contents:

• ‘Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue’
• ‘Dead Travel Fast’
• ‘Further Developments in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’
• ‘Great Western; The Germans Won’
• ‘Just Like Eddy’
• ‘Residuals’
• ‘Slow News Day’
• ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’
• ‘A Victorian Ghost Story’

Quote:

“You have conquered and I yield. yet, henceforward art thou also dead – dead to the World, to Heaven, and to Hope! In me didst thou exist – and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered myself.”

from “Just like Eddy”