The Ventriloquist's Day Off & Other Dark Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781974047499)

Artist and Writer, William Isaacs (front cover painting by the artist), lives in Cornwall, England, and after having a successful career as a painter of offbeat surreal pictures decided to try his hand at short story writing in a somewhat similar offbeat style. It was the result of a chance meeting in the gloomy confines of the saloon bar of The White Hart inn in the gloomy village of St. Teath between the writer and the lone pilgrim Rob Shelsky that the idea of publishing this book was born. In an amazing act of generosity on the part of Rob, he offered to guide the writer through the myriad complexities of the publishing web. So it's mainly down to him, the fact that the pub was characteristically deserted and the liberal consumption of several pints of Treglooms Ballblower bitter.