The Sleep Corporation : the collected short stories of Douglas Thompson.
Thompson, Douglas(Douglas N. R.),author.
By turns wistful, haunting and macabre, 'The Sleep Corporation' is a major collection of thirty-one stories by Douglas Thompson, a self-proclaimed 'Glasgow Surrealist' and one of the most original and individual voices to have emerged in the field of British speculative and dark fiction over the last fifteen years. Thompson is a short story writer and novelist of almost unparalleled skill.
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By turns wistful, haunting and macabre, 'The Sleep Corporation' is a major collection of thirty-one stories by Douglas Thompson, a self-proclaimed 'Glasgow Surrealist' and one of the most original and individual voices to have emerged in the field of British speculative and dark fiction over the last fifteen years. Thompson is a short story writer and novelist of almost unparalleled skill.
Raymond and Arlene -- Fallen woman -- Moving vehicle -- Central station -- World War Three remembered -- On Garnet Hill -- Moon shot -- The topography of city parks -- The bicycle -- Eleanor -- Alva's island -- Pandora's box -- The flowers of uncertainty -- The key to Harry -- Sylvia, dumped by her boyfriend -- Sunday relatives -- Underpass -- Madame Mannequin -- The enlightened heart -- The pleasures of television -- Stations are how towns dream -- Hypnostra -- The mystical wardrobe -- Fugitive dreams of the enslaved -- Elspeth -- Death trains of Durdensk -- My lost sister -- The Sleep Corporation -- Deadbook -- Martworld -- Colossus.