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The Hungry Lens

By Matthew Pegg
The Hungry Lens by Matthew Pegg digital book - Fable

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Scary Tales...


This collection of fantastic and haunting stories includes ghosts, horror, fantasy and contemporary fairy tales; told with ingenuity and wry humour.


Children climb a staircase in the woods and disappear.

A crow becomes a reluctant bride.  

A silent movie star is eaten away by the camera. 

A haunted inkwell reveals hidden desires. 


...Disturbing Dreams


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About Matthew Pegg

Matthew Pegg lives in Leicestershire in a house full of books and cats. He has been an actor, director, graphic designer, drama teacher, and has run education departments in regional theatres.He began his writing career as a playwright. His plays include Escaping Alice, produced by York Theatre Royal in 2012; a street theatre show about Nicaragua; a one man adaptation of Twelfth Night; a puppet play that toured to care homes; and Ant Farm, a play for youth theatres set in an ant colony. He began to write fiction during an MA course in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University, where his fiction tutor was the late author Graham Joyce. Since then his short stories have been published in a number of anthologies from publishers in the UK and the US.

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