Fantastic Stories

Author : James D MacDonald,Tom Easton,Judith K Dial
Publisher : Fantastic Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515424103

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Horror for the Throne by James D MacDonald,Tom Easton,Judith K Dial Pdf

Introduction by Bruce Coville "For the bathroom, for the bedroom, for the bus to work, for that chair in the department store where bored spouses sit while their wives or husbands try on new clothes... this is a perfect way to entertain yourself during idle moments in a way that won't rot your mind. Read this and have fun." -Allen Steele Want something to read while you sit down for just a few minutes on the bus or in a waiting room? Here's just the thing: Forty authors, forty stories, mostly under 2,000 words, mostly reprints. Grouped according to their themes: fairy tales, torments, zombies, vampires, monsters, and more. Just remember: one sitting, one read! Others are waiting! But be sure you're alone... Really alone! Featuring stories by: E.C. Ambrose, Colleen Anderson, Kevin David Anderson, Diane Arrelle, Stewart C. Baker, T.L. Barrett, James Blakey, Bruce Boston, Michael Bracken, Tiffany Michelle Brown, Elliot Capon, Jeff C. Carter, Gregg Chamberlain, Brenda Clough, Ian Creasey, Randee Dawn, Steve Dillon, Stephanie Ellis, Kevin M. Folliard, Eric J. Guignard, Liam Hogan, Emma Johnson-Rivard, Daniel M. Kimmel, Chris Kuriata, Geoffrey A. Landis, Sharon Lee, Gordon Linzner, Nicola Lombardi, Linda Silverman McMullen, Gregory Nicoll, Brian Rappatta, Gary L. Robbs, Chuck Rothman, Steve Rasnic Tem, Mark Towse, Mary A. Turzillo, Douglas A. Van Belle, Marie Vibbert, Dawn Vogel, Marcia Wilson

Author : Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939810625

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Fantastic Tales by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti Pdf

Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love, mysterious phobias, and the hellish curse of everlasting life. In this collection of nine eerie stories, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti switches effortlessly between the macabre and the breezily comical. Set in nineteenth-century Italy, his characters court spirits and blend in with the undead: passionate romances filled with jealousy and devotion are fueled by magic elixirs. Time becomes fluid as characters travel between centuries, chasing affairs that never quite prosper. First published by Mercury House in 1992.

Author : Abram Tert͡s
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810107279

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Fantastic Stories by Abram Tert͡s Pdf

Abram Tertz is the pseudonym of Andrei Sinyavsky, the exile Soviet dissident writer whose works have been compared to fabulists like Kafka and Borges. Tertz's settings are exotic but familiar and as compelling as those of lunatics and mystics. This edition contains the nightmarish "Pkhentz," a story missing from the first English edition.

Author : Terry Jones
Publisher : Puffin HC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : 0140362762

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Fantastic Stories by Terry Jones Pdf

Twenty-two stories of mischief and magic, dragons and dinosaurs, monsters and mermaids, cruelty and courage.

Author : Richard von Volkmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015064543104

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Fantastic Stories by Richard von Volkmann Pdf

Author : Edward Yardley (jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWLZ5D

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Fantastic Stories by Edward Yardley (jr.) Pdf

Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479409419

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The Emperor of the Ancient Word and Other Fantastic Stories by Darrell Schweitzer Pdf

Seventeen fantasies by one of the field's most prolific short story authors, including tales of...mad gods, specters returning from the beyond, inexplicable enigmas from outer space, a romantic and surreal interlude of the legendary madman, Tom O'Bedlam, time travel to allow an irate professor to settle the Shakespearean authorship controversy, and the King Arthur legend--plus genuinely frightening horror, including the celebrated story, "The Dead Kid." Mike Ashley calls the author "today's supreme stylist" of fantasy, and Tanith Lee says that "Schweitzer is a story-teller, by whose smoky fire one may sit spellbound." First-rate stories of the fantastic by a World Fantasy Award winner!

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544231047

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Fantastic Tales by Italo Calvino Pdf

The acclaimed author presents “a rich and wide-ranging anthology” of 19th century fantasy and horror stories—with an original introduction for each (Library Journal). Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature, selected and edited by Italo Calvino, a twentieth-century master of the speculative. As Calvino explains in his introduction to this collection, “the true theme of the nineteenth-century fantastic tale is the reality of what we see: to believe or not to believe in phantasmagoric apparitions, to glimpse another world, enchanted or infernal, behind everyday appearances.” This anthology of twenty-six enchanting, uncanny, terrifying, and immortally entertaining short stories includes E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “The Sandman,” Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose,” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Bottle Imp,” and many more, each with a introduction by Calvino. “Impressive and utterly pleasing…Each story [Calvino] picks is absorbing, unique, and continually surprising.”—Los Angeles Times

Author : Vernon Lee
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551115786

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Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales by Vernon Lee Pdf

Vernon Lee writes in the Preface to Hauntings, “My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts... of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own.” First published in 1890, Lee’s most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. This collection, which includes the four stories originally published in Hauntings and three others, enables readers to consider Lee’s work anew for its subtle redefinitions of gender and sexuality during the Victorian fin-de-siècle. The appendices, which include extensive excerpts from writings by Lee’s predecessors and peers, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Lee’s brother Eugene Lee-Hamilton, allow the reader to see how Lee takes on the themes and preoccupations of the late-Victorian period but adapts them to her own purposes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789501261

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FANTASTIC CHILDREN'S STORIES. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ira Nayman
Publisher : The Experimenter Publishing Company, LLC
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781615086412

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Amazing Stories Fall/WorldCon 2018 Edition by Ira Nayman Pdf

Amazing Stories, the home of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, publisher of the first stories of Ursula K. Leguin and Isaac Asimov, is back in print after an absence of more than a decade! This relaunch of the iconic first science fiction magazine is packed full of exciting science fiction, fantasy, and articles, all in a beautiful package featuring eye-catching illustrations and cartoons. The Amazing Stories Fall 2018 issue (the 614th issue since 1926) includes work by: Robert Silverberg Jack Clemons Allen Steele Lawrence Watt-Evans Rudy Rucker Dave Creek Shirley Meier Kameron Hurley Julie Czerneda Paul Levinson Drew Hayden Taylor Gary Dalkin Steve Fahnestalk Continuing a 92-year history - Amazing Stories returns as a print and digital publication!

Author : Abram Tert︠s︡
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Science fiction, Russian
ISBN : UOM:39015000655376

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Fantastic Stories by Abram Tert︠s︡ Pdf

A collection of short stories written by Soviet author Andrei Sinyavsky under the pseudonym Abram Tertz in the style of fantastic realism, combining phantasmagoric art (hypotheses instead of a purpose) with socialist realism.

Author : Paul Henry Krieger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fantastic, The, in literature
ISBN : MINN:31951D00771735K

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The Fantastic Stories of Abe Kobo by Paul Henry Krieger Pdf

Author : Brett Cooke,Jaume Marti-Olivella,George Edgar Slusser
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9042004002

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The Fantastic Other by Brett Cooke,Jaume Marti-Olivella,George Edgar Slusser Pdf

The Fantastic Other is a carefully assembled collection of essays on the increasingly significant question of alterity in modern fantasy, the ways in which the understanding and construction of the Other shapes both our art and our imagination. The collection takes a unique perspective, seeing alterity not merely as a social issue but as a biological one. Our fifteen essays cover the problems posed by the Other, which, after all, go well beyond the bounds of any single critical perspective. With this in mind, we have selected studies to show how insights from deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and Freudian, Jungian and evolutionary psychology help us understand an issue so central to the act of reading.

Author : Patricia Pulham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351957106

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Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales by Patricia Pulham Pdf

In her persuasively argued study, Patricia Pulham astutely combines psychoanalytic theory with socio-historical criticism to examine a selection of fantastic tales by the female aesthete and intellectual Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935). Lee's own definition of the supernatural in the preface to Hauntings questions the nature of the 'genuine ghost', and argues that this figure is not found in the Society of Psychical Research but in our own psyches, where it functions as a mediator between past and present. Using D.W. Winnicott's 'transitional object' theory, which maintains that adults transfer their childhood engagement with toys to art and cultural artifacts, Pulham argues that the prevalence of the past in Lee's tales signifies not only an historical but a psychic past. Thus the 'ghosts' that haunt Lee's supernatural fiction, as well as her aesthetic, psychological, and historical writings, held complex meanings for her that were fundamental to her intellectual development and allowed her to explore alternative identities that permit the expression of transgressive sexualities.