Vaughan Tucker: 3 books

These tautly-written tales from a remarkable imagination provoke both horror and fascination in equal measures. They're disturbing, but they keep you reading until the shocking finish. In this macabre little collection everyday, mundane events walk hand in hand with the weird, the bizarre and...

The seven beautifully-crafted stories in this book introduce a world in which nothing is as it really seems on the surface, and where the results of hopes and dreams have little to do with planning and more to do with luck, fate and serendipity. There's the immensely talented woman who builds her...

This little gem rattles along in the opposite direction to political correctness with a kind of malevolent glee. Grubby the Eighth Dwarf revels in bad taste, but shining amongst the excess is an exhilarating celebration of the triumph of the individual's need to live their own life their own...