The Smell of Evil
Author: Charles Birkin
 
Vintage Paperback 
 
Horror in unexpected places:
 
A small German town shortly after World War 2, where a flower garden is a remarkable display of colour and beauty for a chilling, appalling reason . . .
 
A modern apartment in London, where the sophisticated guests at a cocktail party become helpless witnesses to a grotesque murder - with no visibe assailant . . .
 
A quiet seaside resort, where a small boy encounters a strange playmate dressed in the style of fifty years ago . . .
 
In this engrossing book the sights and sounds of the bizarre emerge, terrifyingly, into the everyday world. The people involved have no warning that their lives will be enveloped in sudden, unexplainable evil.
 
1st AWARD PRINTING 1969