Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Inspecting The Vaults
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- Jul 1987
- Category
- Short Stories (single author), Gothic, Literary
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780670816873
- Publish Date
- Jan 1987
- List Price
- $27.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780140096361
- Publish Date
- Jul 1987
- List Price
- $23.00
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Description
These 18 stories by the author of The Paradise Motel range from magic realism to the hauntingly macabre. Whether describing a town of one-legged miners, a bizarre brother/sister relationship, or salty seamen telling their favourite real-life horror stories, McCormack disturbs and enchants.
About the author
Eric McCormack was born in a small village in Scotland. He moved to Canada in 1966 and attended the University of Manitoba. He taught English for more than thirty years at St. Jerome’s College at the University of Waterloo, specializing in seventeenth-century and contemporary literature. He has been a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Governor General’s Award. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
