Author: Gary McMahon

Cites

• NULL (3)
  • IN: Beyond Here Lies Nothing (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Captain Clickety He’s coming your way Captain Clickety He’ll make you pay Once in the morning Twice in the night Three times Clickety Will give you a fright
    FROM: Traditional children’s skipping song (origin unknown), (None), Song, NULL
  • IN: Silent Voices (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
    FROM: Old English Nursery Rhyme (circa 1811), (1811), Song, UK
  • IN: Nightsiders (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A man’s home is his castle.
    FROM: Old English folk saying, (None), Saying, UK
• Jack Pollack (1)
  • IN: Beyond Here Lies Nothing (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I has been sent to bed by mummy and daddy. they dont want me to hear them fight. my name is jack. I want to keep a dairy and this is it. daddy thinks people who rite are funny in the head. he says I should be playin outside with my football or on my bike. I like my bike. but daddy wont let me play outside when it dark. that the scary time. nasty man mite take me away like that boy in the news before. my sister is daisy like a flower. I think somebody hates us. he is in the house all the time but we cant see him. he makes niose when nowbody else is here. he wants to hurt us. we hide under the bed when mummy and daddy are in the pub. he canit see us there. we inibible. inbisevil. he canit see us. but he is there. in the walls and under the floor. he creeps about and peeps threw the gaps to try and see me and daisy flower. I am scared. I can here him now. he goes clikcety clikcety like when I spilt my marbels on the kichen floor. clikcey clikcety clikc.
    FROM: From the diary of Jack Pollack, April 1974, (1974), Book, US
• Abby Hansen (1)
  • IN: Beyond Here Lies Nothing (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Promise me that you won’t try to save me.
    FROM: "Save Me", (2012), Song, NULL
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Silent Voices (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The rest is silence
    FROM: Hamlet, Act 5 scene 2, (1603), Play, UK
• Hailey Fraser (1)
  • IN: The Concrete Grove (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “I don’t like it here. The closer you get to the centre, the weirder it feels.”
    FROM: NULL, (2011), NULL, NULL