Peter Haining was een Britse journalist, auteur en bloemlezer, bekend om zijn uitgebreide compilaties van horror- en fantasy-verhalen. Zijn redactionele werk dook in de donkerdere hoeken van de verbeelding, verkende genre-grenzen en presenteerde een gevarieerd scala aan getalenteerde schrijvers. Naast zijn bloemlezingen schreef Haining ook non-fictieboeken over diverse onderwerpen, van beruchte misdaadlegendes tot diepgaande studies van populaire personages zoals Doctor Who en Sherlock Holmes. Zijn fascinatie voor het mysterieuze en onverklaarbare leidde ook tot controversiële publicaties die historische verhalen uitdaagden en debat opriepen.
"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.
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.
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.
Collects and comments on drawings, paintings, engravings, and sometimes convincing photographs of ghosts and other apparitional figures
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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.
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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
Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll--writings from the psychedelic era by the people who lived it.
