- Angela Carter’s surreal imagination produced some of the most dazzling fiction of the last century.Pioneering her own distinctive brand of magic realism, works like The Magic Toyshop and Nights At The Circus cracked open the middle-class c…
- James Joyce led an eventful and turbulent life. From the beginning, he was something of an outsider. His childhood was impoverished and chaotic. Nonetheless, his alcoholic father ensured that he was educated at Ireland's elite schools. From an early age, Joyce revealed an impulse to rebel against social conventions. He…
- A group of carpet fitters are sent on a job to an old Country house in the middle of nowhere. However they soon discover it's a trap set up by the savage, cannibalistic family, The Hannings. The carpet fitters are forced to fight for their lives or risk ending up being the evenings dinner. Unfortunately they are not qu…
- The adventures of wisecracking telephone repairmen Terry and Johnny are by turns comic, risque, and heroic. Terry pursues Marie, a hotel switchboard operator, who loses her job when she innocently does a favor for gangster Nicky. Terry gets Marie a job with financier Schuyler; but Nicky has new plans for her. Written b…
- Neil Hamilton is a silk manufacturer on a Seattle-to-New York train to deliver an important shipment for his company. He's got to face Arthur Hohl, the leader of some unscrupulous businessmen who want to corner the silk market. On the train are the usual slice-of-life people including Guy Kibbee, a railroad detective, …