{"product_id":"9781943910144","title":"Devils' Spawn","description":"An important, though neglected, figure in twentieth-century British horror fiction, Sir Charles Birkin (1907-1985) began his literary career as editor of the popular - and now highly collectible - \u003ci\u003eCreeps\u003c\/i\u003e series of horror anthologies in the 1930s, which featured tales by well-known writers such as H.R. Wakefield, Lord Dunsany and Russell Thorndike, as well as contributions by Birkin himself. \u003cp\u003eA master of the \u003ci\u003econte cruel\u003c\/i\u003e, often with a Grand Guignol finish, Birkin found true horror not in ghosts or the supernatural but in man's inhumanity to man. Never before reprinted and extremely scarce, \u003ci\u003eDevils' Spawn\u003c\/i\u003e (1936) collects sixteen of Birkin's stories, many of them first published in the \u003ci\u003eCreeps\u003c\/i\u003e volumes, including the horror gems \"The Terror on Tobit\" and \"The Harlem Horror\". Birkin's collection \u003ci\u003eThe Smell of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e (1965) is also available from Valancourt Books. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Not for the squeamish. Be warned, if you are at all sensitive, leave him well alone.\" - Hugh Lamb \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"More than a definite touch of the great master, Edgar Allan Poe.\" - Dennis Wheatley \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Few writers of horror today approach the standards of Birkin.\" - \u003ci\u003eUlster Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Valancourt Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47063955996912,"sku":"9781943910144","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781943910144_p0.jpg?v=1763791379","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781943910144","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}