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Peter Haining

    2 avril 1940 – 19 novembre 2007

    Peter Haining était un journaliste, auteur et anthologiste britannique, réputé pour ses vastes compilations d'histoires courtes d'horreur et de fantasy. Son travail éditorial explorait les recoins les plus sombres de l'imagination, repoussant les limites du genre et présentant une gamme diversifiée d'écrivains talentueux. Au-delà de ses anthologies, Haining a également signé des ouvrages de non-fiction sur des sujets variés, allant de légendes criminelles infâmes à des études approfondies sur des personnages populaires tels que Doctor Who et Sherlock Holmes. Sa fascination pour le mystérieux et l'inexpliqué a également donné lieu à des publications controversées qui ont remis en question les récits historiques et suscité le débat.

    Peter Haining
    Classic Science Fiction
    Ghosts : the illustrated history
    Murder on the Menu
    London After Midnight
    The Key to Time
    The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook
    • "A wide-ranging collection of the most illuminating and amusing items from this wealth of material. It provides a unique portrait of the 'Great Detective', his cases, his faithful assistant Watson and of course his chief adversary - the arch-villain Moriarty."--Jacket.

      The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook
    • London After Midnight

      A Conducted Tour

      • 368pages
      • 13 heures de lecture
      3,0(2)Évaluer

      This collection of crime stories set in London contains stories by P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Graham Greene, Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie. The city provides a backdrop to their mysteries.

      London After Midnight
    • What better way to do away with an enemy than at the dinner table? Arsenic in the porridge, cyanide in the cocoa, a sauce laced with strychnine, or the chef with a cleaver in his back - the choices are boundless. This collection brings together great crime stories from all eras.

      Murder on the Menu
    • Ghosts : the illustrated history

      • 128pages
      • 5 heures de lecture
      3,8(27)Évaluer

      Collects and comments on drawings, paintings, engravings, and sometimes convincing photographs of ghosts and other apparitional figures

      Ghosts : the illustrated history
    • Pan 1st 1998 edition , space movie stories, Dick, King, Barker fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

      Classic Science Fiction
    • The Nine Lives of Doctor Who

      • 192pages
      • 7 heures de lecture
      3,1(12)Évaluer

      This is a biography of the nine men who have played Doctor Who. Peter Haining writes about the cult figure of Tom Baker to Paul McGann's Millennium Man, with actors' observations and anecdotes thrown in.

      The Nine Lives of Doctor Who
    • Cannibal Killers

      • 310pages
      • 11 heures de lecture
      3,1(20)Évaluer

      This volume presents a comprehensive study of the terrible phenomenon of the human flesh eater. Far from being the specialty of obscure tribes in the distant jungles, the cannibals are uncomfortably close to home. The cities of America and Europe, the provinces of revolutionary China, the 'Fatal Shore' of colonized Australia and the open lifeboats of a wrecked ship all yield up grisly tales of forbidden meat. The cases covered in this chilling collection include: Armin Meiwes, the Internet sex cannibal, by his own account the first predator ever to consume a consenting victim; Ed Gein, the original 'Psycho', whose butchery sent a chill through the heart of America; Jeffrey Dahmer, the zombie-obsessed necrophiliac whose killing spree lasted thirteen years; Daniel and Manuela Ruda, vampiric soulmates who swore that they were the tools of the devil; and, Issei Sagawa, the diminutive Japanese student whose obsession with cannibalism found horrible expression in the murder of his only friend

      Cannibal Killers
    • Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll--writings from the psychedelic era by the people who lived it.

      The Walls of Illusion