Meet the Scruffians, workhouse tykes and street arabs scrobbled by the Waiftaker General, dragged to the Institute and put to the Stamp, Fixed ageless, imperishable... the perfect child labour. Meet the scruffs escaped to live free & fight back: Flashjack and Puckerscruff; Squirlet Nicely and Vermintrude Toerag; Yapper, the Scruffian what speaks Dog; Whelp, the dog Fixed as a scruff; and Rake Jake Scallion, not a scruff, but the finest friend a scruff ever had. Park yer arse, stray, and we'll learn yer the ABCs of being a scruff. We'll learn yer how us Scruffians STAMP.
A Scruffian Primer gathers stories from the author's short story collection, SCRUFFIANS!, together with the novella THE TAKING OF THE STAMP, in the aim of giving the reader a perfect introduction to the mythos. Marking the release of the all-new A Scruffian Survival Guide in August, this chapbook and its companion A Scruffian Feastiary consolidate the entire corpus-to-date as an ongoing series, with more volumes planned.
“The post- post- modern Victorian fables that comprise Hal Duncan’s The Scruffian Survival Guide inhabit a unique dark fantasy world – a feral dream. The language is mad genius.” -- Jeffrey Ford
"Hal Duncan's cheeky and charming Scruffian stories hide a steely shiv of inspection that digs uncompromisingly into the ribs of the establishment. This latest volume, populated as always with wonderful characters old and new, deepens that exploration and brings it bang up to date. I loved every word of it." -- Neil Williamson
Limited edition package: signed lettered illustrated first edition hardback; abridged ebook edition in epub format (minus The Taking of the Stamp); digital download of readings.
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A Scruffian Feastiary (signed trade paperback)
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A Scruffian Survival Guide (signed trade paperback)
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A Scruffian Funferal (signed trade paperback)
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A Scruffian Story-So-Far (limited editions)
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A Scruffian Story-So-Far (signed trade paperbacks)
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Testament (signed first edition hardback)
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Scruffians! (signed paperback)
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Rhapsody (signed paperback)
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Errata (signed paperback)
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Sodom / New Sodom (signed paperback)
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Signed French translation VELLUM (Lunes d'Encre edition)
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Signed French translation INK (Lunes d'Encre edition)
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Signed Finnish Edition VELLUM
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Signed Finnish Edition INK
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Signed French translation VELLUM (Folio SF edition)
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Signed German edition VELLUM
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Signed German edition INK
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Signed French translation ESCAPE FROM HELL! (Folio SF edition)
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Signed US edition INK
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Signed Spanish Edition INK
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Signed Bulgarian Edition VELLUM
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Hal Duncan Glasgow, UK
Hal Duncan is the author of VELLUM and INK, more recently TESTAMENT, and numerous short stories, poems, essays, even a few musicals. Homophobic hatemail once dubbed him "THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan!!" (sic), and you can find him online at www.halduncan.com or at his Patreon for readings, revelling in that role. ... more
