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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( R ) : Royle, Nicholas
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This is a superb first novel from an author known for his unusual, oneiric short stories. The setting is Europe in the late '80s, right before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The form is of two -- or perhaps three -- parallel tales about men who are spirit twins. The mood is that of existential anomie. The horror appears in such themes as genital mutilation, identity splitting, paranoia, ambiguously real/unreal nightmares and the birth of a monstrous child. Elegantly written and profoundly disturbing.
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London, the late 1980s. A storm of hurricane strength brings two people together. One of them is married. 'Nicholas Royle writes at the very edge of genre, both at the cutting edge and at the border with something that is rather different' - Roz Kaveney, TLS 'His books are a tonic for our jaded palates' - Jonathan Coe 'He makes the ordinary seem spooky and the uncanny seem believable' - Laurence Phelan, Independent on Sunday 'A master craftsman' - Ron Butlin, Sunday Herald
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This selection of horror writing, taken from Nicholas Royle's second prize-winning anthology, also contains a new story by Ramsey Campbell.
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'Not until after her death did his mother actually come to live with them full-time.' Thus begins John Burke's 'One Day You'll Learn', a chilling ghost story in which a monstrous woman refuses to loosen her hold on her son and his family, even after her death. Many of Burke's stories concern the dead, and the power which they continue to wield over the living: a power which is, almost without exception, cold, malevolent, and without pity. Not all of John Burke's stories concern ghosts, however. The author prefers the term 'tales of unease' to describe his writings; and in all his stories a sense of unease is effortlessly conjured up, whether the author is concerned with beings from beyond the grave or with the powerful forces for violence and evil contained within human beings. There is also, however, a lighter side to Burke's writings; and in stories such as 'Flitting Tenant and 'Collaboration', the author shows us a world in which the dead and the living exist (more or less) peacefully side by side. WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU collects together twenty-two of John Burke's tales of unease, which have (with one exception) appeared in print over the past five decades. The volume concludes with 'And Cannot Come Again', a story which Nicholas Royle, in his introduction, calls 'one of the most affecting stories I have read'; a story which combines dream and nightmare to stunning effect, and shows why John Burke's tales deserve a place on the shelf of every admirer of supernatural fiction.
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