London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1958
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1958
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Book Details:Hardback edition published by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1958. First Edition Sleeve notes:Five people entered the caves - three men and two women. They intended to spend the afternoon exploring the outer chambers and, when a sudden fall of rock cut off their return, only one of them understood at first what that meant. If any way of escape existed it could only come out in a series of caves known to exist on the far side of the mountain. To reach it they would have to find their way through the long, intricate galleries of rock, twisting and ramifying under the whole range of mountains, where at any moment their way might end in an impassable crevice. At best they would undergo days of struggle and growing exhaustion with their little supply of food quickly running out. Worse even than the fear of starvation was the realization that, within a few days, their lamps would begin to fade and, one by one, to fail altogether. After that would come the brief flare of their few remaining matches, and then the darkness - the utter, terrible darkness of the earth's interior, in which they would be left groping their way towards a certain and horrifying death. The Caves of Night tells with frightening realism the story of those five people; how they came together, the ties and conflicts between them, and what happened when, all other hope gone, they set out on their terrible journey. Book source:Peter Stevenson |
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Book Details:Paperback edition published by Hodder and Stoughton, 1966. Sleeve notes:The discovery of the prehistoric paintings on the walls of the caves had brought Henry back year after year; but to the five people trapped helplessly inside the flooding burrows of the vicious mountain, food and light were more precious than the coloured bison staring down at them from the dank walls - staring down on their desperate struggle to escape, as food and light and time relentlessly ran out. Book source:Terry Jenkins |
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Book Details:Paperback edition published by Sphere, 1984. Sleeve notes:TRAPPED BELOW GROUND! Five had set out on that ill-fated trip to Austria’s Frohnburg caves. Now only three were left alive - three desperate human beings trapped without hope of escape in a vast, crumbling underground cavern where sudden death lurked behind every corner and one false step could plunge them all into eternity. Three of them. A woman, her husband, and her lover. And soon there would be only two … Book source:Peter Stevenson |
