Tales of Terror from the Black Ship
by
Chris Priestley
Illustrator: David Roberts
‘I do so love to be frightened,’ says Cathy – as she and her brother, with increasing discomfort, listen to his plentiful store of macabre and supernatural stories from the high seas.
Priestly draws on all the gruesome and outlandish conventions of the Gothic to offer these deliciously chilling tales of demons, horrors, curses and hauntings.
The story telling and the illustrations, with their fine (as if etched) lines are brilliantly unsettling, and we savour the thrill of dread – knowing that something fearful waits in the wings.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
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Chris Priestley
Chris Priestley has been a cartoonist and illustrator for many years, working mainly for magazines and newspapers. He currently has a weekly strip cartoon called Payne’s Grey in the New Statesman. Chris has been a published author since 2000. He has written several books for children, both fiction and non-fiction. Death and the Arrow was shortlisted for a Mystery Writer’s of America Edgar award in the US in 2004, and Redwulf’s Curse won the Lancashire Fantastic Book Award in 2006. Ever since he was a teenager Chris has loved unsettling and creepy stories, with fond memories of buying comics like 'Strange Tales' and 'House of Mystery', watching classic BBC TV adaptations of M R James ghost stories every Christmas and reading assorted weirdness by everyone from Edgar Allen Poe to Ray Bradbury. He hopes his ghostly tales will haunt his readers in the way those writers have haunted him.
http://www.talesofterror.co.uk/
Chris Priestley photo: Judith Weik
