A Trick of the Shadow by R. Ostermeier Book cover type:Hardcover to invent a story which

to invent a story which would recreate those vague impressions of wonder and awe and mystery that I myself had received from the form and shape of the land of my boyhood and youth

The first collection of prose and verse

After an unsuccessful mission by her own people

then cleverly integrating them into Flamel’s history

A Trick of the Shadow by R. Ostermeier Book cover type:Hardcover to invent a story whichR. Ostermeier, A Trick of the Shadow, French Flaps 210 pp. R. Ostermeier lives and works on the peninsula. This first collection of strange tales draws predominantly on the regions folklore and history, yet also includes first hand accounts of contemporary disquiet. A Trick of the Shadow contains the extraordinarily unnerving Object and the disturbing, Arthur Machen inspired A Tantony Pig, as well as the novella Bird hags, which in all truth might not