About

Gerald Kersh was born in 1911 in Teddington-on-Thames. He first gave evidence of his iron constitution at the age of four, when after being declared dead of lung congestion, he sat up in his deathbed. It seven he wrote his first novel and published it privately in a limited edition of one copy, bound in his father’s brocade waistcoat. He eventually wrote 1,000 articles, 300 short stories, and 19 novels, including Night and the City (1938). Fter World War II he took up permanent residence in upstate New York.

Gerald Kersh was born in 1911 in Teddington-on-Thames. At seven he wrote his first novel and published it privately in a limited edition of one copy, bound in his father’s brocade waistcoat. He eventually wrote 1,000 articles, 300 short stories, and 19 novels, including Night and the City (1938). There he wrote many critically-acclaimed novels which failed to find a mass audience. He first gave evidence of his iron constitution at the age of four, when after being declared dead of lung congestion, he sat up in his deathbed.

With twenty-five stories, this collection of noir fiction and slice-of-life stories presents a side of Kersh rarely seen Included is one of Kersh's finest tales, The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy and a fine science fiction tale, This Stuff is Like Cigarette Ash lso included is the rare Blast, a story never before reprinted in book format.

This book has a printed cloth front panel with a design by Limehouse Design/Medusa Press, an interior photograph by Jeff Hersch, and a brief introduction by Paul Duncan ost of the stories in here have been out of print for decades.

Edition Details

• Limited to 200 copies.
• Introduction by Paul Duncan.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands and printed cloth panel.

External Links

• London Stories. Centipede Press page for London Stories
• Gerald Kersh (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Gerald Kersh