Half Human by Stan Mcmurtry
Divorcé Fergus Munroe meets the beautiful and intriguing Jenny Merridew at a function. The two are drawn to each other and soon fall in love and marry. Happiness abounds and they live each day in a state of bliss. They move into a tiny 300-year-old run-down cottage in Kent where, during renovations, Fergus discovers, hidden in a bedroom wall, the diary of a young girl. The diary describes several gruesome murders which took place in the vicinity over 150 years ago. As more such frightening incidents occur, Jenny starts to become really afraid and decides they should sell the place. However, with a stagnant house market, that is impossible. Jokingly they give their ghost a name but neither Fergus nor Jenny has any inkling of the true horror that awaits them in that sweet, small cottage in the countryside. Caught in the crossfire of superstition and dread, Fergus must unravel the mystery behind this strange entity before it devours the very fabric of their existence. With each passing night, the line between reality and nightmare blurs. The battle for the village becomes a race against time, trapping Fergus and his friends as they fight for their lives.
More usually known by his pen name "Mac", Stanley McMurtry was born in Edinburgh. The Family moved to Birmingham when he was eight years old and at 17 he enrolled at the Birmingham School of Art and soon afterwards landed his first job as a trainee shop-fitting designer but as this proved to be too restricting he left and worked as an Ironmonger's assistant until undergoing compulsory military service. On leaving the forces, he became a trainee cartoon film animator, and it was here that he found true happiness and fulfilment doing a job that was to become his life. During breaks in filming, he began to contribute "Gag" cartoons to magazines and newspapers. He did rather well at this and was soon snapped-up by the Daily Sketch in 1968 to be the Political and Social Cartoonist. In 1971 the Daily Mail took-over the Sketch and Mac became its main cartoonist, during which time he was voted Cartoonist of the Year six times and Political Cartoonist of the Year twice. Additionally, with a colleague, he wrote scripts for the comedians Dave Allen and Tommy Cooper, which is testament to his extraordinary good sense of humour and fun. Mac was awarded the MBE in 2004 for services to the Newspaper industry, was a "Castaway" on Desert Island Discs in 2008, has been invited to Number 10 by the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and was voted one of the Men of the Year in 1983. In the meantime, he has been a successful children's author with his acclaimed book "The Bungee Venture" being made into an animated cartoon by the fabled Hannah & Barbera team in Hollywood. Mac is a widower with two children and five grandchildren who retired from the Daily Mail at the end of 2018 but was brought back to create a weekly cartoon for the Mail on Sunday. He now spends his time writing novels and children's books.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781915657466 |
| ISBN 10 | 1915657466 |
| Titel | Half Human |
| Autor | Stan Mcmurtry |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Pressman House Publishing Limited |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2023-12-04 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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