The Vesuvius Club : A Lucifer Box Novel

Literature & Fiction

MARK GATISS

Humor & Satire

Simon&Schuster

Edwardian London. It is a world that seems familiar to us: Hansom cabs rattling through fog-choked streets, gin-swilling aesthetes rubbing shoulders with movers and shakers of British Imperial grandeur. And beneath the confident facade, naturally, an underworld of sinister Tongs, crazed anarchists, murder, and seething vice. So much for the familiar picture of comforting Victoriana. But this is the world of Lucifer Box and nothing is quite as it first appears. Lucifer Box is the most fashionable portrait painter of his day: trading bon mots with the best of them and ruthlessly exploiting his talent and dandified beauty to enter every level of this intriguing society. From his elegant townhouse at Number 9 Downing Street (well, someone has to live there...) to his vast studio in Chelsea, from the snow-choked streets of Tsarist St petersburg to the sun-bleached hotels of Mentone, life is one long, dazzling party. Of course, leading a double life is terribly fashionable and Lucifer Box is not to be outdone. For what Box's fashionable circle would never believe is that their witty, cheerfully bisexual friend is also a secret agent...

The Devil in Amber

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The Vesuvius Club: A Lucifer Box Novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

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With the young Queen Elizabeth newly established on her throne, Lucifer Box Esq. is now 'by Appointment to Her Majesty'. But the secretive Royal Academy seems a very different place and, approaching retirement, Box decides to investigate one last case.

Black Butterfly: A Lucifer Box Novel

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SYNOPSIS 
 Thomas Nigel Kneale may not be a household name, but those who know him revere him. And those who don t know the name, will certainly have felt his influence. In many ways the father of television drama in the UK, he was also, in every way, a successor to H.G. Wells and M.R. James in his impact. The missing link in the genre chain that leads from Wells to J.G. Ballard. Why is he so little known? Perhaps because he was a screenwriter in the days before TV thought to preserve its output, and because many of his most successful works dealt with Science Fiction and the Supernatural. But he was a pioneer. He pushed the medium in a new direction with THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT, forging a more vivid, more cinematic means of telling stories, with Producer/Director Rudolph Cartier. He demanded more from Television... in terms of style, and content. Filling his stories with ideas as well as emotion. Time after time, he broke new ground, tested the boundaries; provoked as he enthralled, made us think as he made us feel... THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT, THE YEAR OF THE SEX OLYMPICS, QUATERMASS AND THE PIT, THE ROAD, THE STONE TAPE, BEASTS... In the UK, there s not a single TV drama dealing in Speculative ideas that does not owe him a debt; directly, or by the ripples of influence that preceded them... Now the authors, critics and screenwriters who have been moved and influenced by his work, come together to celebrate his life, his work, and his extraordinary legacy in: WE ARE THE MARTIANS: The Legacy Of Nigel Kneale. CONTENTS Foreword - Mark Gatiss Introduction - Neil Snowdon King Of Hauntology - Mark Chadbourn The Literary Kneale - Tim Lucas The Quatermass Conception - Stephen Bissette A Conversation With Judith Kerr - Neil Snowdon On Nigel Kneale - Ramsey Campbell The Quatermass Legacy: A Personal Reflection On Kneale And His Influence - David Pirie Creeping Unknown Pt1: Wuthering Heights, The Crunch, Nineteen Eighty Four - Kim Newman Phenomena Badly Observed, And Wrongly Explained: Quatermass, The Pit, And Me - John Llewellyn Probert Under The Influence - Maura McHugh A Conversation With Joe Dante - Neil Snowdon Brief Encounter - Stephen Laws Adaptation And Anger, Or The Nigel Kneale-John Osbourne Synthesis - Richard Harland Smith The Promised End Nigel Kneale s Lost Masterpiece from 1963: The Road - Jonathan Rigby A Conversation With Mark Gatiss - Neil Snowdon Cool The Audience, Cool The World: Media, Mind Control &amp; The Modern Family - Kier-La Janisse Pushing The Door He Unlocked: Ghostwatch And The Stone Tape - Stephen Volk Beasts: An Overview - Mark Morris It Would Have Been Suckled, You Know : Beasts And Baby An Appreciation - Jeremy Dyson Quatermass: Rebirth &amp; Ressurection Jez Winship The Quatermass Conclusion: An Interview With Nigel Kneale - David Sutton. Creeping Unknown Pt2: Kinvig Kim Newman In Pursuit Of Unhappy Endings: Chris Burt &amp; Herbert Wise on The Woman In Black - Tony Earnshaw Where s Kneale When You Need Him- Thana Niveau Creeping Unknown Pt3: Sharpe's Gold &amp; Kavanagh QC - Kim Newman On Wishing For A Nigel Kneale Childhood - Lynda E. Rucker

We Are The Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale

TIM LUCAS

Neil Snowdon

Maura McHugh

kim-newman

Mark Chadbourn

Stephen Laws

Ramsey, Campbell

Stephen Bissette

Genre Fiction

PS Publishing

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