"I can confidently go on to state that A Twist in the Eye is the most exciting collection of weird fiction...that I have read for many years. Moreover, I am confident that after the reader has gone through the tales he or she will be as amazed as I am that Charles Wilkinson is not far better known and appreciated in the field... "
- Mark Samuels in his introduction
Throughout the sixteen stories collected in this remarkable book Charles Wilkinson explores themes of place, ritual, identity, death and transmutation with a rare, if not utterly unique, confidence. They are enigmatic but never vague, dreamlike but never illogical, horrifying but only occasionally visceral. Few writers can write ‘weird’ with so convincing a voice.
The full table of contents is as follows:
Introduction by Mark Samuels
Returning
The Human Cosmos
Hidden in the Alphabet
Line of Fire
In His Grandmother’s Coat
Night in the Pink House
Cold Plate
Petrol-saved
The World Without Watercress
Gold in Ash
An Invitation to Worship
The Investigation of Innocence
Choice
A Lesson from the Undergrowth
Watchers in the Wood
Hands
The book is a lithographically printed, 256 page sewn hardback with printed endpapers (by a follower of Bosch), limited to 260 copies. ISBN 978-0-993527821.
It can be pre-ordered now for £32.00 inclusive of postage worldwide. The official publication date is 20th August 2016.
