MUNKY B. Catling, Dave McKean (art) 500 copy SIGNED (by BOTH) LTD Swan River HC

  

Catling, art by Dave McKean. Dublin, Ireland; Swan River Press; 2020. 1st edition hardcover, limited to 500 SIGNED (by BOTH author & artist) unnumbered copies. There hadn't been monks at the abbey since 1600.

Not living ones, that is. When the puckish spirit of a monk begins haunting the storied village of Pulborough, known for its ancient abbey, Maud Garner, manager of the Coach and Horses Inn, arranges for the famous ghost hunter, Walter Prince, to come investigate. And from there, things spiral out of control. Peopled with richly drawn Dickensian grotesques and filled with bizarre and comical incident, Munky is as compelling as it is antic. Catling transports the reader to an interwar England in the throes of change. Part bizarre ghost story, part whimsical farce, part idiosyncratic literary experiment, it could be described as P. Wodehouse collaborating with Raymond Roussel, with a dash of M. James, if it weren't so uniquely its own thing. "Brian Catling's peculiar genius for observation, and the testing and squeezing of location, always honours what Blake called "the Vegetated Mortal Eye's perverted & single vision. It sometimes feels that the Eye has been removed and left overnight in a glass, such are the layers of spectral comedy swaggering into view.

Life through the bottom of a deep pint jar. Is a delirious blend of terror and pantomime.

The spine-chilling realisation, for those who have trespassed anywhere near this territory, where river licks at ecclesiastical land, is that it is all true. Cover art by Dave McKean. This item is in the category "Books & Magazines\Books". The seller is "filip1" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Republic of Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Vietnam.

1. Book Title: Munky
2. Signed: Yes
3. Narrative Type: Fiction
4. Publisher: Swan River Press
5. Original Language: English
6. Edition: First Edition, Limited Edition
7. Publication Year: 2020
8. Type: Short Stories
9. Format: Hardcover
10. Language: English
11. Author: B. Catling
12. Features: Dust Jacket
13. Genre: Fantasy
14. Country/Region of Manufacture: Ireland
15. ISBN: 9781783800339