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The Swing.
The Swing.
The Swing.
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Edgar Henry is a collector of illusions from a bygone age of stage magic. When one particularly notorious artifact finally enters his collection Edgar discovers that the greatest magic of all has little to do with illusion.

The Swing is the sixth of Uncle John's Bedtime Tales. Reader discretion is advised.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherJohn Vault
Release dateApr 11, 2011
ISBN9781458137760
The Swing.
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John Vault

I'm an Englishman abroad in New Zealand, having moved here from the UK about four years ago. Writing for me has evolved from a means of escapism into something of an obsession. A subject that plays a major part in the content of many of my stories. Yes I'm pretty much infatuated with lunacy. It scares the hell out of me. It's all the unpredictability I think. My writing style is unorthodox and rarely sticks firmly to the genre for which it is presented, which is good because formulaic horror is like an 80's pop single. Same old, same old. I like to flip rapidly between gory horror and farcical comedy. I think that this kind of contrast amplifies the effects of both. It certainly affects me that way. I saw a film once, a long time ago, called 'The old dark house'. It was basically horror comedy but it was done so well that it just creeped me out for months! Another of my favourites (for all the wrong reasons) is 'Eraser head'. The atmosphere in this movie just blew me away. I've been criticised in the past for rampant use of expletives in character dialogue but I don't care. The characters that I write about actually live for me. I get to know them like friends and all my friends swear like troopers!I consider myself a normal man, having a wife, children and several household pets, but I have a real dark side and the best way to appease it is to write horror stories. I don't like stuff where the hero always wins out because justice has no place in horror either. Sometimes the hero and the villain are the same character. Sometimes the villains win and the heroes meet with ghastly deaths. When you see the villain/monster die in flames at the end of a movie, it's over. Why not let it live and enjoy the possibility that it just may turn up at your bedroom window in the middle of the night? Isn't that sooo much sexier?If you want to get in touch please feel free to do so. But no stalkers please. I'm fully booked in that department until somewhere around January 2025! I can be reached via my e-publisher at:HiRiscPublications@gmail.com - please put 'FAO John Vault' in the subject header and I'll get it.

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    The Swing. - John Vault

    The Swing.

    By

    John Vault.

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    The Swing.

    Copyright © 2011 by John Vault.

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    HiRisc Publications has rated this work suitable for readers of 16 years or older.

    It may contain frequent use of strong language, horror themes, violence or descriptions of a sexual nature. Reader discretion is advised.

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    This story is dedicated to those who have seen and loved the great stage magicians, to those who love being tricked, and to those with sufficient imagination to believe that what they are seeing may be real.

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    Contents.

    Introduction.

    The Swing.

    About the author.

    Also by John Vault.

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    Introduction.

    Belief is a luxury that we can adopt or reject at our leisure. There is no more firm evidence of this than our adoration of the great stage magicians. The rabbit from the hat; the lady sawn in half, it's not real, any of it. And yet we sit and watch enthralled, our disbelief suspended and our sanity put firmly aside for the sake of our entertainment. If the illusion is extraordinary we occasionally wonder how it's done, but if the trick is so spectacularly impossible that we are shaken awake by it, only then might we begin to suspect that it isn't a trick at all.

    The swing is the sixth of Uncle John's Bedtime Tales by John Vault.

    Enjoy.

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    The Swing.

    ‘It is as I have said, and I’ve told you the truth Mr. Jenkins.’ A brown circular tea stain became momentarily visible at the rim of Edgar Henry's white bone china cup as it rattled around the saucer in his nervous hand. ‘I’m a collector.’ He offered a forced and superficial smile but Paul Jenkins remained unconvinced.

    ‘By collector, I take it you mean an obsessive compulsive stalker who crawls about in people's gardens at night scaring the shit out of innocent women

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