Undertaker's Dozen

by David Forrest

Terror can have such simple beginnings - a child’s letter to Father Christmas… a lovely girl glimpsed in a London street… a spin down the Brighton Road… a night spent in an empty mansion for a bet.

And the consequences can be so fearsome, as the unsleeping dead walk again, as strange emotions stir inanimate things to murderous life, as horrors beyond our imagining cross the threshold into everyday life; can anyone be sure that all is as it seems?

After you have read this book, can you?

Genres: Horror

160 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

About the author

David Forrest is a pen-name used by English novelists Robert Forrest-Webb and David Eliades to write four books, And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game (1969), The Great Dinosaur Robbery (1970), After Me, the Deluge (1972), and The Undertaker's Dozen (1974).

These books featured tight plotlines and riotous humor, touching at the same time some serious topics: The Great Dinosaur Robbery and Nephew deal with the Cold War, After Me, the Deluge with religion.

- from Wikipedia

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic volume of horror short stories set in Britain with a special twist. I read the whole volume without any interrupt. Masterfully written you don't need much blood, gore or violence. A clear recommendation to every fan of a good enthralling story!

[Hugo · Rating 2 out of 5]

A fairly tame and middling set of stories—only the final three tales in the collection have any impact—well written but largely unoriginal and predictable, and most of them fatally undercut by having no sense of relish or drama in the (usually twist) ending.