The Croquet Player Paperback / softback
by H. G. Wells
Part of the Bison Frontiers of Imagination series
Paperback / softback
Description
Something is horribly wrong in the remote English village of Cainsmarsh.
An elderly woman stiffens in dread at her own shadow; a terrified farmer murders a scarecrow; food prepared by others is eyed with suspicion; family pets are bludgeoned to death; loving couples are devoured by rage and violence.
A spirit-corrupting evil pervades the land, infesting the minds of those who call Cainsmarsh home.
Is this vision real, or a paranoid fantasy generated by an even darker, worldwide threat? And is the call to resist the danger itself a danger?
These are questions that disturb the calm of an indolent croquet player who happens to hear the tale of the unlucky village.
H. G. Wells’s ambiguous story of horror is a modern classic, a prophetic, disturbing glimpse of the primitive distrust and violence that gnaw at the heart of the modern world.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages, 4 illustrations
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2004
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- ISBN:9780803298422
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:112 pages, 4 illustrations
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/10/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780803298422
