Nigel Kneale
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Thomas Nigel Kneale was a British author and screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years. Predominantly a writer of thrillers that used science-fiction and horror elements, he was best known for the creation of the character Professor Bernard Quatermass.
Books
Dead of night
The bus conductor / E.F. Benson -- Sweeney Todd, the demon barber / Thomas Prest -- The middle toe of the right foot / Ambrose Bierce -- King's evidence / Algernon Blackwood -- The sire de Malétroit's door / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The hands of Mr. Ottermole / Thomas Burke -- A thing about machines / Rod Serling -- The weird tailor / Robert Block -- [Pit and the Pendulum]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- Perez / W.L. George -- The pond / Nigel Kneale -- The ferryman / Kingsley Amis -- De mortuis / John Collier.
Quatermass and the pit
When ancient bones and something resembling an unexploded bomb are found on a London building site, the military and scientists are baffled. As further astounding discoveries are made, the renowned Professor Quatermass begins to unravel a terrifying thread of chaos and terror ...
Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow
Hour after westerly / Robert M. Coates -- Housing problem / Henry Kuttner -- Portable phonograph / Walter Van Tilburg Clark -- None before me / Sidney Carroll -- Putzi / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Demon lover / Shirley Jackson -- Miss Winters and the wind / Christine Noble Govan -- Mr. Death and the redheaded woman (the rider on the pale horse) / Helen Eustis -- Jeremy in the wind / Nigel Kneale -- Glass eye / John Keir Cross -- Saint Katy the virgin / John Steinbeck -- Night Flight / Josephine W. Johnson -- Cocoon / John B.L. Goodwin -- Hand / Wessel Hyatt Smitter -- [Sound Machine]( / Roald Dahl -- Laocoön Complex / J.C. Furnas -- I am waiting / Christopher Isherwood. Witnesses / William Sansom -- Enormous radio / John Cheever -- Heartburn / Hortense Calisher -- Supremacy of Uruguay / E.B. White -- Pedestrian / Ray Bradbury -- Note for the milkman / Sidney Carroll -- Eight Mistresses / Jean Hrolda -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- Inflexible Logic / Russell Maloney.
Quatermass II
Mysterious showers of meteorites lead Professor Quatermass on a trail to a factory in a deserted village. What awaits him is a worldwide conspiracy that threatens to take over the planet and turn its human population into zombies ...
The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories
The circus of Dr. Lao, by C.G. Finney. The pond, by N. Kneale. The hour of letdown, by E.B. White. [The wish]( by R. Dahl. The summer people, by S. Jackson. Earth's holocaust, by Hawthorne. Buzby's petrified woman, by L. Eiseley. The resting place, by O. LaFarge. Threshold, by H. Kuttner. Greenface, by J.H. Schmitz. The limits of Walter Horton, by J.S. Sharnik. The man who vanished, by R.M. Coates.
Masters of Darkness III
The secret / Jack Vance -- The patter of tiny feet / Nigel Kneale -- The tenant / Avram Davidson -- Hallowe'en's child / James Herbert -- After the funeral / Hugh B. Cave -- But at my back I always hear / David Morrell -- The whisperer / Brian Lumley -- Doppelg̈anger / R. Chetwynd-Hayes -- The master of the hounds / Algis Budrys -- Judgment day / L. Sprague de Camp -- In the hills, the cities / Clive Barker -- Jamboree /Jack Williamson -- Family / Joyce Carol Oates -- Twilight of the dawn / Dean R. Koontz -- The woman in the room / Stephen King.