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The first issue of "H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror" features
fiction by: Darrell Schweitzer, Jean Paiva, Arlene F. Marks,
Jonathan L. Howard, Brian Lumley, Nicholas Knight, Holly Phillips,
Tanith Lee, H.P. Lovecraft, and Tim Pratt and Michael J. Jasper. It
is edited by Marvin Kaye.
Marvin Kaye has crafted a wondeful sequel to Charles Dickens' A
Christmas Carol, picking up the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and
revisiting familiar characters such as Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit,
and many others, following it through to an altogether satisfying
conclusion in an intricate tapestry of the real and the
supernatural, as the reformed Scrooge tries to satisfy a nagging
feeling of something yet undone. ...intriguing and unusual. It's a
very interesting idea to put a new text into an 'intertextual'
relationship with a Dickens original.The treatment of the Jewish
angle throws a sidelight on early C19th society and fictional
representations of it at the time which is extremely interesting.
I'm sure that many readers will find it fascinating...In short, a
worthy endeavour with much that is thought-provoking.-Charles
Palliser It's a brave soul who writes a sequel to a
universally-loved and -known book like A Christmas Carol; it's a
rarer man still who does a job as fine as Marvin Kaye of evoking
Charles Dickens without imitating him, of extending a story that
had until now seemed resolved and delivering a tale which will
delight, terrify and affect all readers. Kaye's mastery of
Dickensian style, but also by a kind of optimism, or idealism, far
more consistent with Victorian Dickens/Kaye than with purely
contemporary Kaye. I can imagine that Marvin really did write it as
Dickens might have wanted it to go. -Paula Volsky This is a
magical, indeed a miraculous, story. Here is the vision of the
Afterlife which Dickens did not address, but was the unanswered
question at the end of his original tale. It is rare indeed when an
author writes a sequel to some other author's work and does not
diminish both. It's brilliant. -Morgan Llywelyn
Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of
all pulp magazines. Its mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science
fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable has enthralled
generations of readers throughout the world.Collected here are 13
of the best short stories published in Weird Tales' first year of
publication, 1923 -- classics by many who would later play an
integral part in the Unique Magazine, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Frank
Owen, and Farnsworth Wright.
Hilary Quayle and her assistant, Gene, are asked to take on the
publicity for an extravagant production of Macbeth to premiere at
Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum. Hilary had known the director
many years ago in summer stock. Events proceed as usual in the
theatrical world -- a world fraught with the hectic, the
impassioned, the absolute certainty that nothing will be ready by
opening night, and the absolute drive to belie that certainty.And
on the night of the technical/dress rehearsal all efforts seem to
be paying off with a rather splendid production -- until one of the
corpses turns out not to be acting, and the gunshot during the
blackout turns out to be no flamboyant anachronism.Hilary suspects
the play's the thing and studies the text and old sourcebooks, her
trail finally taking her to the Folger Library in Washington, D.C.
Gene, meanwhile, pursues the problem in more traditional fashion.
His investigations leads through New York's glamorous and less than
glamorous theatrical circles.The conclusions and solutions they
find will surprise everyone. reader who enjoys good and intriguing
mysteries.
Brian Lumley, a Grand Master of Horror and author of the popular
Necroscope(R) series, opens the collection with the tense "A Place
of Waiting." The moors of Devon, England, are home to many ghosts,
but none as fearsome as the red-eyed specter that refuses to accept
his death. His only chance of release, however, comes at a terrible
cost.
Orson Scott Card puts a new spin on one of literature's most famous
ghosts in "Hamlet's Father." What if the former King of Denmark was
not killed by his treacherous brother for his crown, but by someone
entirely unexpected as punishment for the darkest of crimes? Would
his troubled son still seek revenge?
The patrons of an Edinburgh tavern are introduced to a beverage
with an unusual history in "The Haunted Single Malt" by Marvin
Kaye, a clever and spooky tale about ghost stories and the people
who love them.
Tanith Lee offers "Strindberg's Ghost Sonata," a chilling story set
in an alternate Russia. When a poor man is rescued from certain
death by hospitable strangers, he discovers that he is not a guest
in their haunted tenement building--he is a prisoner destined to
become a sacrifice.
Since 1977, The Wolfe Pack has published The Gazette, chockful of
articles and tales of America's greatest sleuth, Nero Wolfe, who
prefers beer and orchids to working at his West 35th Street
brownstone. But thanks to Wolfe's wisecracking associate Archie
Goodwin and his agent REX STOUT, Wolfe's seventy-two cases are
mystery classics. THE NERO WOLFE FILES is a generous collection of
Neronian reading delights selected from over twenty-five years of
The Gazette by veteran anthologist, novelist, and charter member of
The Wolfe Pack Marvin Kaye.
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