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Living with the Dead (Paperback)
Darrell Schweitzer; Introduction by Tim Lebbon; Illustrated by Jason Van Hollander
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Living with the Dead (Hardcover)
Darrell Schweitzer; Introduction by Tim Lebbon; Illustrated by Jason Van Hollander
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Weirdbook #43 (Paperback)
Doug Draa; Darrell Schweitzer, Adrian Cole
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Weirdbook #38 (Paperback)
Michael Bracken, Darrell Schweitzer, Adrian Cole
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Weirdbook #36 (Paperback)
Douglas Draa; Darrell Schweitzer, L. F. Falconer
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"Those who yearn for the Good Old Days are bound to like it....
Those who insist on the close reasoning and satirical wit of modern
science fiction will find surprising amounts of both here; and if,
like myself, you have a foot in both camps, you're sure to be
delighted by this connoisseur's blend of the quaint and the
ageless... not dated writing and is never likely to be; it's lucid,
didactic, analytical, and above all, zestful." --Damon Knight, "In
Search of Wonder"
First published in the fabulously rare pulp magazine "The Thrill
Book" in 1919, this masterful blend of time-travel fantasy,
alternate realities, and social satire propels early 20th century
characters into the Philadelphia of the year 2118, in which the
city is an isolated dystopia run by a corrupt oligarchy, the
Liberty Bell has been transformed into a disintegration machine,
and William Penn is worshiped as a god. For readers actually
familiar with the Quaker City, there is the added pleasure of
seeing an eerily recognizable rendition of the past (1918)
projected into a strange future. For anyone, it is still an
exciting melodrama filled with striking images and vivid
characters.
One of the genuine classics of early pulp science fiction.
Francis Stevens was a pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett
(1883-1948), the first woman to be a major contributor of fantastic
fiction to the pulp magazines. She wrote primarily for "The Argosy"
and "All-Story," but also appeared in "Weird Tales" and elsewhere.
Her other novels include "The Citadel of Fear" and "Claimed." Her
shorter works have been collected as "The Nightmare and Other Tales
of Dark Fantasy."
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
" This] novel has immense power in its climax," said The
Encyclopedia of Fantasy about Darrell Schweitzer's 1982 novel, THE
SHATTERED GODDESS. Now, at last, here's the companion volume to
that work, a cycle of eleven stories set "in the time of the death
of the Goddess." This is an Earth of the far future, when the
planet has declined into chaos, and darkness looms at the end of
human history. Here you'll meet...a dadar, a wizard's shadow
attempting to become a man; two sorcerers grotesquely transformed
by their fratricidal hatred; a musician who becomes the lord of
death; a boy-priest consumed by divine visions; and a witch who
loves a god, among many others. Here's strangeness, wonder, and
terror in the tradition of Clark Ashton Smith's Xothique or Jack
Vance's The Dying Earth. Schweitzer is a master fantasist, whom
anthologist Mike Ashley once called "today's supreme stylist."
Great fantasy reading, now collected into book form for the first
time
A collection of interviews with masters of fantasy and science
fiction, including: Terry Bisson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John
Brunner, Jonathan Carroll, Robert Holdstock, Ellen Kushner, Ursula
K. Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, Ray Faraday Nelson, Frederik Pohl, Dan
Simmons, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Jack Williamson. All interviews
conducted by Darrell Schweitzer.
Under pressure from the reading public Arthur Conan Doyle brought
his famous detective back from the dead in The Return of Sherlock
Holmes. We learn that Holmes actually faked his own death in order
to avoid being killed by one of his many enemies. Thirteen classic
mysteries follow this admission.
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