Description
Banned for over 30 years - Frank Walford's classic work of horror is available again.
"Twisted Clay is a gruesome study of progressive insanity, but the study is obviously subordinate to a desire to excite and horrify." -H.M. Green
She loved ... and killed ... both men and women. She was utterly beautiful and utterly mad. This is a tale of passionate horror ... a breath-taking venture into abnormal psychology ... a story which cannot be forgotten.
"A competently told horror story." -Bruce Catton, Nea Service
"A prose nightmare, tinged with Poe and Baudelaire substance." - N.Y. Mirror
"This work will probably be regarded as one of the most notable books of the year. It merits numerous superlatives, such as most peculiar, most gruesome, most forceful." - Dayton, O., Daily News
"Sensational study of a doomed, abnormal girl in her fight to maintain a warped personality against a world in her torturing journey along the misty and terrifying by-ways of progressive insanity." - Baltimore, Md., News
"Remarkably persuasive and effective novel." - Cleveland, O., Press
"The logical successor to the best products of the Tiffany Thayor school." - Durham, N.C., Herald-Sun
Twisted Clay is a gruesome study of progressive insanity, but the study is obviously subordinate to a desire to excite and horrify. -- H.M Green
About the Author
Born in 1882 in Balmain Sydney, Australia, Frank Walford was a buffalo hunter and crocodile shooter in his youth, later becoming a journalist and editor. He was a prolific writer whose short stories were dramatized on Australian radio. He died in 1969.
Reviews
It contains some horrible scenes equal to the worst in Dracula
* The Western Mail *A prose nightmare, tinged with Poe and Baudelaire substance.
* Mirror (NY) *This work will probably be regarded as one of the most notable books of the year. It merits numerous superlatives, such as most peculiar, most gruesome, most forceful.
* Daily News (Dayon OH) *Sensational study of a doomed, abnormal girl in her fight to maintain a warped personality against a world in her torturing journey along the misty and terrifying by-ways of progressive insanity.
* News (Baltimore, MD) *Book Information
ISBN 9781844717163
Author Frank Walford
Format Paperback
Page Count 308
Imprint Remains Books
Publisher Salt Publishing
Series Remains Classics
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 18mm
