The Cook (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
The Cook (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Author: Harry Kressing

Publisher:

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781941147665

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The Cook opens with Conrad, nearly seven feet tall, gaunt, and dressed all in black, arriving on his bicycle in the town of Cobb. He quickly secures a job as cook for the wealthy Hill family, winning their hearts and stomachs with his delectable dishes, and before long he has everyone around him eating out of his hand. But Conrad has a sinister, inscrutable plan in view, and after becoming master of their palates, next may be their souls . . . A mouth-watering blend of delicious black humor and Kafkaesque horror story, The Cook (1965) is a dark fable "beginning in a vein of innocent fairy tale and ending with satanic revels" (The Observer). Long out of print, this cult classic returns in a new edition featuring Milton Glaser's iconic dust jacket art from the first edition. "I have much enjoyed The Cook, for I am very fond of Satan. My congratulations to Mr. Kressing on his achievement." - John Fowles "A finely wrought, captivating tale of suspense-a superior entertainment." - Detroit News "I haven't been so gripped by any first novel since Lord of the Flies." - Irving Wardle, The Observer "A fable, part diabolique, part diversion ... high originality, some style, and a come-on which assures that it will be read at one sitting." - Kirkus Reviews

Fowler's End
Fowler's End

Author: Gerald Kersh

Publisher: 20th Century

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781939140487

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Harlan Ellison In the worst, poorest, most benighted corner of London is Fowlers End, one of the most godforsaken spots on the face of the earth. It is here that young Daniel Laverock, starving and nearly penniless at the height of the Great Depression, takes the only job he can find: manager of the Pantheon Theater, a rundown old silent cinema owned by Sam Yudenow. Yudenow, an incorrigible swindler and one of the great comic grotesques in English literature, at first seems merely an amusing old fool, but Laverock soon discovers he is actually a despicable rogue. And when one of Yudenow's schemes finally goes too far, Laverock and his co-worker Copper Baldwin decide to teach him a lesson with a grand scheme of their own, with hilarious and unpredictable results.

Nightshade and Damnations (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
Nightshade and Damnations (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Author: Gerald Kersh

Publisher: Valancourt Books

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9781948405355

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An expedition in South America uncovers a terrifying race of men without bones who literally suck the life out of their prey. A man in 20th-century London makes a horrifying discovery about a monster found off the coast of Brighton in 1745. A sea captain goes ashore on a deserted island and finds what seem to be the bones of a previously unknown species of monster, only to learn that the bones tell a much more tragic tale than he could ever have imagined. A war correspondent meets a soldier who claims to be 438 years old. These are the plots of just a few of the weird tales you will find in this book. Gerald Kersh (1911-1968) was a brilliant and inventive writer acclaimed in his time for his gritty novels of London life and his often bizarre short fiction, but he has unfortunately become neglected since his death. This volume includes an introduction by award-winning science fiction author Harlan Ellison, who also selected the eleven stories that appear in this collection and which represent the very best of Kersh's short fiction. "No mortal can write this well." - Harlan Ellison "Sometimes funny, sometimes nightmarish, always first-class entetainment." - The New York Times "Kersh had a wild imagination matched by a vivid, near-hallucinatory style ... the cumulative impact of his short stories is horrific in the extreme." - Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural

The Cook
The Cook

Author: Harry Kressing

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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A fable, part diabolique, part diversion, telling of a cook who transforms the lives of two feuding wealthy families and ultimately the life of their village.

Cook
Cook

Author: Harry Kressing

Publisher:

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780394420431

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Twentieth Century Cook Book
Twentieth Century Cook Book

Author: Geographical Publishing Co

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-22

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780265611258

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Excerpt from Twentieth Century Cook Book: An Up-to-Date and Skillful Preparation on the Art of Cooking, and Modern Candy Making Simplified, Also the Process of Drying Fruits and Vegetables, and Butchering Time Recipes This book is intended especially and primarily for farm cooks, though it will be found equally useful and helpful in the city kitchen where economy is an object. It is, of course, understood that country or farm house keepers have many advantages their town sisters lack, such as fresh fruits, vegetables, poultry, eggs, milk, cream and butter, which naturally cannot always be had in city markets, Where even inferior grades of produce are high priced. In the average farm kitchen such things are considered necessities, not luxuries, and are accepted quite as a matter of course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Century Cook Book
The Century Cook Book

Author: Mary Ronald

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 9781528484381

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Excerpt from The Century Cook Book: With a New Supplement of One Hundred Receipts of Especial Excellence Although definite honors are not conferred on cooks else where, good cooking is everywhere appreciated, and there is no reason why it should not be the rule instead of the exception. In large establishments it may be said to prevail, but in many moderate households the daily fare is of a quality which satis fies no other sense than that of hunger, the hygienic require ments and esthetic possibilities being quite unknown or dis regarded. This is what Savarin designates as feeding, in contradistinction to dining. The author believes that the women of to-day, because of their higher education, have a better understanding of domes tic duties; that hygiene, economy, system, and method are better understood and more generally practised. Children are not only more sensibly clothed, but they are more wholesomely fed, and households are directed with more intelligent care. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.