The Cupboard: Seven dark and unusual stories - with novella The Procedure
About this book
From noir and dark satire to spies and off-beat crime, the seven short stories in this compact, yet perfectly-formed, collection brim with excitement, invention and compassion.Buy now or download for freeA magician walks into a cupboard and is never found…A sleeper agent lives in fear of retirement…A cat-lover suspects her husband of murder…A dog’s name risks ruining a love affair…Now with bonus novella The ProcedureWhen two astronauts find themselves stranded in a distant galaxy far from earth, they don’t panic – the space mining company they work for has a rescue procedure that has never failed. But the procedure brings its own surprises…Bestselling and award-nominated author Charles Harris brings his typical dark humour, razor-sharp eye and the effortless control of a master storyteller to pack a novel’s worth of plot into a page, revealing worlds that are both recognisable and yet subtly shifted as he tells of the moments when lives are changed forever.In genres that vary from mystery, magic-realism and supernatural fantasy to off-beat romance and espionage, the seven bite-sized stories and novella in this short, yet perfectly-formed, collection are brimming with surreal invention and compassion.“A natural story-teller” – Ian St James Awards