The Terrors E-Book

Tom Chivers

• Herausgeber: Nine Arches Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 14

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

The Terrors is a sequence of imagined emails; poetic missives from the start of the 21st century to inmates at London's notorious Newgate Prison. Mimicking the tone of its primary source, The Newgate Calendar, The Terrors tacks from horror to humour, from moral disgust to the casual chitchat of the digital generation, all the time delineating London's violent urban undercurrent in bold, energetic and sometimes shocking language.

Leseprobe

The Terrors TOM CHIVERS

The Terrors

Tom Chivers

Illustrations by Emma Robertson.

ISBN: 978-0-956055-92-7

eISBN:978-0-957384-78-1

Copyright © Tom Chivers 2009

All illustrations © Emma Robertson 2009

Tom Chivers has asserted his right under Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

First published March 2009 by:

Nine Arches Press

PO Box 6269

Rugby

Warwickshire

CV21 9NL

UNITED KINGDOM

www.ninearchespress.com

DEAR READER,

What follows is a sequence of imagined emails sent from the author to inmates at London’s Newgate Prison incarcerated between roughly 1700 and 1760. All mistakes, typos and anachronisms are deliberate.

Death is cloathed in terrors

- The Newgate Calendar

Biography lends to death a new terror

- Oscar Wilde

Celebrities. They’re a funny old bunch, aren’t they? All you have to do is lure them into an overlit bungalow with a promise of a few weeks back in the limelight, and before you can say ‘me me me’ they’re baring their tortured souls and telling us all KINDS of things we never knew we wanted to know.

- Heidi Stephens, The Guardian, January 2009

A Guide to Email Etiquette

Don’t reply to an email when angry, as you may regret it later.

Don’t type in capitals as this is considered SHOUTING.

Don’t send large attachments without checking with the recipient first.

Don’t send chain letters or ‘make money fast’ messages.

Don’t criticize spelling (sic.). It is considered petty.

Read the rules.

Don’t flame people.

Don’t make personal remarks.

Don’t send unsuitable email.

Don’t mention Lilly’s hieroglyph.

Don’t overuse the exclamation mark.

Be concise and to the point.