In this astounding novel by cult author Tom Baker, Joseph Merrick, the hideously deformed "Elephant Man", matches wits with the infamous killer of Whitechapel prostitutes known to history only as "Jack the Ripper", and finds that the truth concerning the killer's identity may be more than he is prepared to accept.
This novel is a dark, intense, and often horrifying read, written in a deep, passionate voice that is unmistakably the voice of a master storyteller. It weaves both the dark and nightmarish truth together with the equally surreal fantasy, leaving the reader spellbound and wanting more.
Rich with elaborate characterization and detailed setting, this novel has been described as " an implicit investigation into the possibility of a 'monster' lurking in a human soul..." It is also a literary first, the first fictional novel to ever feature Joseph Merrick as the central protaganist in a fictional story.
Sure to become a collectors item, this edition of JOSEPH: A VICTORIAN FAIRY TALE is illustrated with a SPECIAL SECTION of shocking photographs, as well as a special appendix.
Come with us, to the fog-shrouded Victorian alleyways and dripping tenements of Whitechapel, on a journey through the realm of the nightmarish and the fantastic. But, BEWARE! : Behind every corner, a shadow lurks....
Fiction. 167 Pgs. $11.77 ISBN: 1-4116-1278-7 Illustarted with photographs. |
