PRIESTLEY, Chris – Doodled Books https://doodledbooks.com Rare Signed & First Edition Books in London Tue, 05 Jul 2022 18:08:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/doodledbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cropped-Doodled-Books-favicon-2022.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 PRIESTLEY, Chris – Doodled Books https://doodledbooks.com 32 32 191136237 Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror By Christ Priestley Rare Signed Doodled First Edition Book (and rare cover print error) https://doodledbooks.com/product/uncle-montagues-tales-of-terror-by-chris-priestley-rare-cover-doodled-signed-first-edition-book/ https://doodledbooks.com/product/uncle-montagues-tales-of-terror-by-chris-priestley-rare-cover-doodled-signed-first-edition-book/#respond Tue, 25 May 2021 09:22:21 +0000 https://doodledbooks.com/?post_type=product&p=2671 Now you can order Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley. This is a fabulous book which has been published by Bloomsbury. It comes with two dustjackets – one with no title text on the front (see picture).

Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house and his regular visits from his nephew give him the opportunity to relive some of the most frightening stories he knows. But as the stories unfold, a newer and more surprising narrative emerges, one that is perhaps the most frightening of all. Uncle Montague’s Tales of Terror, it transpires, are not so much works of imagination as dreadful lurking memories. Memories of an earlier time in which Uncle Montague lived a very different life to his present solitary existence.

Product details

  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (1 Oct. 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0747589224
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747589228
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm

 

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The story starts with Sam and Lizzie that are freezing and hungry on the streets of Victorian London. When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins, he is rudely turned away. Months of struggle suddenly find their focus, and Sam resolves to kill the man. Huddling in a graveyard for warmth, Sam and Lizzie are horrified to see the earth around one of the tombs begin to shift, shortly followed by the wraithlike figure of a ghostly man. He warns Sam about the future which awaits such a bitter heart, and so begins Sam’s journey led by terrifying spirits through the past, present and future, after which Sam must decide whether to take the man, Scrooge’s, life or not.
A perfectly layered, tense and supremely satisfying twist on one of Dickens’ most popular books, cleverly reinvented to entice a younger readership.

Reviews
Praise for Mister Creecher:
A brilliant counterpoint to Frankenstein, compellingly written. Chris Priestley goes from strength to strength
(Chris Riddell)

A dark, moving, creepy, funny tale about the making of a famous monster . . . only not the one you think it’ll be. Splendid gothic stuff (Kim Newman, author of Nightmare Movies)

Praise for the Tales of Terror books: A wonderfully nightmarish journey of the imagination – old-fashioned storytelling at its best. (Daily Mail)

The gradual build-up of horror . . . is exquisitely done. My insides were still untangling themselves hours after I had closed the book (Sunday Telegraph)

Praise for The Dead of Winter: Deliciously creepy with lots of twists and turns to keep young readers on edge (Daily Mail)

Book Description
A masterful, genius twist on a perennial classic . . . Step into the world of ‘parallel’ Dickens and be transported by a tense, gripping story of greed, revenge and the ghosts of past, present and future.
About the Author
Chris Priestley lives in Cambridge with his wife and son. His novels are brilliantly original additions to a long tradition of horror stories by authors such as M.R. James and Edgar Allan Poe.
Chris wrote one of the World Book Day books for 2011 and has been shortlisted for a variety of prestigious children’s book awards.


Biography
Chris Priestley worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for twenty years before becoming a writer. His books have been nominated for many awards including the Edgar Awards, the UKLA Children’s Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. The award-winning and critically-acclaimed Tales of Terror series for Bloomsbury feature chilling stories rooted in the tradition of M R James, Saki and Edgar Allan Poe and are available in many languages. Mister Creecher is a novel inspired by, and linked to, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and his latest, Through Dead Eyes, is set in a haunted hotel in Amsterdam.

Product details

  • First Edition First Printing
  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens (6 Nov 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1408854139
  • ISBN-13: 978-1408854136
  • Product Dimensions: 13.4 x 2 x 20.5 cm

 

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Michael Vyner recalls a terrible story, one that happened to him. One that would be unbelievable if it weren’t true! Michael’s parents are dead and he imagines that he will stay with the kindly lawyer, executor of his parents’ will …Until he is invited to spend Christmas with his guardian in a large and desolate country house. His arrival on the first night suggests something is not quite right when he sees a woman out in the frozen mists, standing alone in the marshes. But little can prepare him for the solitude of the house itself as he is kept from his guardian and finds himself spending the Christmas holiday wandering the silent corridors of the house seeking distraction. But lonely doesn’t mean alone, as Michael soon realises that the house and its grounds harbour many secrets, dead and alive, and Michael is set the task of unravelling some of the darkest secrets of all. This is a nail-biting story of hauntings and terror by the master of the genre, Chris Priestley.

Biography

Chris Priestley worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for twenty years before becoming a writer. His books have been nominated for many awards including the Edgar Awards, the UKLA Children’s Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. The award-winning and critically-acclaimed Tales of Terror series for Bloomsbury feature chilling stories rooted in the tradition of M R James, Saki and Edgar Allan Poe and are available in many languages. Mister Creecher is a novel inspired by, and linked to, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and his latest, Through Dead Eyes, is set in a haunted hotel in Amsterdam.

Review

`Open a Chris Priestley Gothic ghost story and what seeps from the pages, like mist from a desolate marsh, is his sheer love of the genre. This passion not only shapes a gripping story with well-rounded characters, but lifts the level of writing well above similar Victorian chillers . . . Deliciously creepy with lots of twists and turns to keep young readers on edge’
–Daily Mail

`A beautifully paced novella that carries a sting in its tail’
–The Times

`Priestley assembles his plot and possibly psychotic characters with wicked glee, creating a supernatural tale which is aware that revenge is always open-ended. Genuinely frightening, this will make your ghoulish nephews stay up all night’
–Literary Review

`A cracking nineteenth century style ghost story with some wonderful Dickensian characters, a puzzling plot line and revelations on Christmas Day’
–School Librarian

`A gripping, accessible read for 10 to 15-year-olds which I would highly recommend’
–School Librarian

Book Description

Nominated for the Carnegie Award 2012

A boy, a mysterious guardian and a haunted house with a terrible secret . . .

This is a chilling ghost story that will thrill and terrify and get read again and again and again

–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product details

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (4 Oct. 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1408800136
  • ISBN-13: 978-1408800133
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm

 

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