‘Tales of the Weird’ contains three strange episodes narrated in quite a different way. Ercan Akbay, has succeeded in rendering the visual expression of this unique book with shocking vividness.
'Someone Else' tells what happens when a middle-class finance director decides to restart his life from scratch and experiences a kind of metamorphosis. Setting off from Istanbul for London and then on to Port-au-Prince, it is the story of an unthinkable reincarnation that lasts until the end of a horrific ritual.
'The High Roller' tells of the three days of debauchery that precede a weak-willed, unmarried womaniser’s descent into the depths of depravity. The pace of events and the siren song of gamblers’ luck take him to a point beyond what he had ever expected.
'I’m the One Who’s Bad' tells of a young concert pianist’s morbid passion for an older woman while waiting to be rescued in a life boat after a serious accident involving a cruise ship. A terrible crime has been committed; the husband of this femme fatale has killed himself along with the eight hundred other people on board, all in one go. The hero of the story will pay a heavy price for uncovering the secret of this female spider’s fatal attraction.
TALES OF THE WEIRD
Ercan Akbay
Istanbul September 2007, 3rd Edition
Stories
Criminal Zone
136 pages
For a few people, somewhere in the world, the salty taste of blood is still equivalent to the taste of lust. For them, it is not the wheres and hows of their exploits that are important, but rather their aftertaste and the exotic cadences they leave in the heart…
The heroes of the three strange tales in this book and what they have to tell cannot be compared to anything the reader will have encountered in real life, yet the reader who recalls certain experiences of their own and certain suppressed urges that only ever existed within the confines of their unconscious will accept them into their lives without question…
And what about those who hold dear to their precious limits and rules that are never to be transgressed?
And what about those who reduce their lives to a tasteless-colourless-odourless disposable pulp, preferring taboos, monotony and decency over the darkness, and the uncertainty and the turbidity that are inherent in life itself?
They should be careful when they pick up this book.