Mammoth Books Presents The Unexpected

Mammoth Books Presents The Unexpected
Authors
Michael Marshall Smith
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Size
0.29 MB
Lang
en
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What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night - Michael Marshall Smith

For Michael Marshall Smith, this was one of those stories that dropped straight into his head, but the problem was that he didn't want it: "It wasn't an idea I liked. It was clearly some part of my brain serving up a notion simply because it could, and because it knew it could frighten me with it.

"It did frighten me, and so I did what I always do when that happens - which is write it down, in the hope it will go away."

Respects - Ramsey Campbell

"'Respects' was suggested by a local incident in which a car thief in his early teens killed himself while fleeing the police," recalls Campbell. "A lamp standard at the site of his demise is still decorated with flowers years after the incident, and the tributes on the obituaries page of one Wallasey newspaper were at least as grotesque as the ones I've invented - the romanticisation of a petty...