Quintessentially Quirky Tales Box Set 1: Comedy gems with a hint of mischief

Thrilled readers have described Iain Pattison’s Quintessentially Quirky Tales series as “laugh out loud funny”, “hugely enjoyable”, “clever and punny” and “a comedic tour de farce”. Now you can enjoy all three volumes of the international humorist’s most off-beat and wry stories in one super bumper bundle. The Quintessentially Quirky tales box set features more than 40 fun-packed gems ranging from the wickedly satirical to the surreal and slapstick. Enter Iain’s fantastical world of pastiches, droll send-ups and magical mayhem where singing trees co-exist with serial killer grannies, and vampires sit job interviews while fairy tale figures battle to block new motorways. And learn why he is acknowledged as a master of the hilarious twist-ender. In An Ugly Way to Go The world’s supply of miracles runs out – with bizarre consequences Christopher Robin meets his maker after an encounter with a homicidally heavy copy of AA Milne’s collected tales Hapless pirates discover that plundering Mad Morgan’s treasure trove by the light of the full moon isn’t going to be the pushover they hoped for A Preston bus driver wakes up from a coma to find he can speak every language on the planet There’s alarm as toys and gadgets pop up in history centuries before they were invented A disgruntled wife plots to use ravenous zombies to help dispose of her cheating husband And Little Red Riding Hood heads to grandma’s house – with murder on her mind In Fiddle of the Sphinx A Pharaoh’s shady new advisors seem more interested in money than mummies Willy Wonka resorts to deadly measures when his fabulous chocolate factory hits hard times A kidnapped woman is held hostage – in a busy Heathrow departure lounge There’s an unholy row as a 20-foot-high sheep gets the Dalai Lama’s goat Christmas-loving Scrooge is visited by three cynical ghosts out to show him the error of his tinsel obsessed ways An undercover reporter aims to expose a town’s new ghost tour – but are all the phantoms frauds? And a disgruntled horror writer devises a fittingly fiendish revenge against her dismissive former publisher In That’s Why the Lady is a Vamp A Transylvanian supermodel’s plans to bleed a billionaire dry hit an unexpected snag Glasgow detectives are sent to Middle Earth to investigate a murdered hobbit and a missing ring Quasimodo reckons it’s time to quit Notre Dame and open a beauty business A dramatic new career direction for Sherlock Holmes leaves Watson seeing red A mediaeval printer finds his innocuous history volume has mysteriously become a sizzling, sexy best-seller Fists and crutches fly in a dust-up over a disabled parking spot And the search for Atlantis forces one scientist to wise up and smell the coffee