Arthur Mackeown: 11 books

Short story. The body of an elderly man is discovered on a lonely beach that can only be approached at low tide by way of an ancient breakwater. How did he get there, and what connects his death to the death of an eleven-year-old boy who fell from this same breakwater and drowned during a deadly game more than fifty years ago?

Moshe Cohen is a Holocaust survivor living in Jerusalem. On the face of it he is a perfectly ordinary man, but he has one odd habit: for almost thirty years he has refused to eat any bread but Matzos, the traditional unleavened bread of the Passover festival.

Semi-autobiographical short story. A small boy runs away from boarding school to escape a cruel teacher.

Entering the Place of the Dead is easy enough. Getting out is another matter.

Short story. This is the story of how a chance conversation with a stranger can change a man's attitude to life.

Who's been eating MY Corn Flakes? The story of a Corn Flake-guzzling monster from Mars.

Peculiar graveyard goings-on. Short story about a village gravedigger who tries to persuade a policeman that an angel poked its tongue out at him.

Short story. The cautionary tale of Chang, the world's only vampire pekinese dog.

Short story. The tradition of humiliating and making fun of new workers in a glass factory has unexpected results.

A homeless man develops an imaginary relationship with a woman whose photograph he finds in somebody's wallet.

If you like comic erotica, tragedy, drama, adventure, horror, or just plain farce, these stories are for you. You will get lost in the back streets of Marrakesh, follow Will Saunders on the journey of a lifetime, shudder at the fate of a most unlucky urban cannibal, and laugh at the pretentions of Chang, the world's only vampire Pekinese dog. And that's not all...