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Presented in an edition that could grace any haunted library CONTENTS Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the PainterSheridan Le Fanu Amour DureVernon Lee The Little RoomMadeline Yale Wynne Novel of the Black SealArthur Machen The WillowsAlgernon Blackwood Casting the RunesM R James The Hall BedroomMary E Wilkins Freeman The Call of CthulhuH P Lovecraft The Daemon LoverShirley Jackson SticksKarl Edward Wagner The HospiceRobert Aickman The White HandsMark Samuels Production Details Three quarter bound in blocked cloth with a printed and blocked paper front boardSet in Vendetta with Bordonaro as display360 pages7 full page duotone integrated illustrations.

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2003 ISBN 0 393 05756 9 site_link site_link It is only after I have finished a compendium of stories that I mull over why did I manage to finish the book The answer lies in how eager you are to discover the outcome and with unnatural happenings what is yet to unfold You do get a few damp squibs but on the whole there was plenty in this book to make you look at an Atlas whether it be to find the willows on the Danube or the terrain in upper New York state or the road network in the West Midlands in fact when you think about many of these stories they occur in strange and unusual and remote locations But by far the manipulation of the human mind through various methods makes for startling thoughts. Weird tales comics Not my usual type of reading but it took just over two weeks to come to a closure on what was worth many of these outlandish happenings It only gets a three stars because two stories were a bit too long and one was obscure virtually to the end Michael Dirda

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Michael Dirda chooses the best Weird Tales ever written for this new collection from The Folio Society Cthulhu and his ilk are summoned to the page by artist Harry Campbell Existing somewhere in the chilly territory between ghost stories and tales of horror weird fiction is the exploration of the truly uncanny these stories poke holes in the fabric of our everyday reality revealing glimpses of a strange and unknowable universe Pulitzer Prize winning writer Michael Dirda has long held a passion for the genre and the twelve mind shattering tales he has selected for this collection contain both genre defining masterpieces and modern classics M R James Shirley Jackson Robert Aickman Algernon Blackwood and Mark Samuels are just some of the writers waiting to induct the reader into a world of creeping horror In his lively introduction Dirda warns that the reader will encounter revenants demons monsters and otherworldly entities as well as black magic unholy rites prophetic dreams and accursed books before explaining why each of these tales is an unmissable example of the strange and uncanny Artist Harry Campbell has created seven deeply unsettling illustrations for this edition including a spectacular double page spread that will delight fans of Lovecraft s cosmic horror and a pair of illustrated endpapers that hint at the delicious chills contained within OTHERWORLDLY ART BY HARRY CAMPBELL Spare elegant and stylised Harry Campbell s illustrations nod to the traditional woodcut images of ghost story collections of old whilst remaining seductively fresh and compelling In black and green and white Campbell expertly uses shadows architecture and eerie flowing shapes to introduce the ambiguity that is the pulsing heart of these stories In these images a dark shape follows a man aboard a ship and light shines off a scaly tentacle as it bursts from a human chest the laws of nature fall away to reveal the chaos beyond Playing with the symbolism of the uncanny the striking binding design features a staring magenta eye and a clutch of unsettling objects Skulls keys spiders and a scurrying black cat warn that this book contains a menagerie of terrors Featuring both celebrated classics like The Call of Cthulhu and lesser known terrifying treats such as The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne Weird Tales is an unmissable celebration of the fiction that reminds us of our insignificance in the face of a vast universe including 1 double page spread printed in black and green. Weird tales covers Printed endpapers illustrated by the artistPlain slipcasePrinted in Italy9 x 6 Weird TalesMichael Dirda born 1948 a Fulbright Fellowship recipient is a Pulitzer Prize winning critic After earning a PhD in comparative literature from Cornell University the joined the Washington Post in 1978. Weird war tales comic book Two collections of Dirdas literary journalism have been published Readings Essays and Literary Entertainments Bloomington Indiana University Press 2000 ISBN 0 253 33824 7 and Bound to Please New York W W Norton 2005 ISBN 0 393 05757 7 He has also written Book by Book Notes on Reading and Life New York Henry Holt 2005 ISBN 0 8050 7877 0 Classics for Pleasure Orlando Harcourt 2007 ISBN 0 151 01251 2 critical biographical study On Conan Doyle Princeton Princeton University Press 2011 ISBN 0 691 15135 0 whi Michael Dirda born 1948 a Fulbright Fellowship recipient is a Pulitzer Prize winning critic After earning a PhD in comparative literature from Cornell University the joined the Washington Post in 1978. Weird tales fanucci Two collections of Dirda s literary journalism have been published Readings Essays and Literary Entertainments Bloomington Indiana University Press 2000 ISBN 0 253 33824 7 and Bound to Please New York W W Norton 2005 ISBN 0 393 05757 7 He has also written Book by Book Notes on Reading and Life New York Henry Holt 2005 ISBN 0 8050 7877 0 Classics for Pleasure Orlando Harcourt 2007 ISBN 0 151 01251 2 critical biographical study On Conan Doyle Princeton Princeton University Press 2011 ISBN 0 691 15135 0 which received a 2012 Edgar Award and the autobiographical An Open Book Coming of Age in the Heartland New York W W Norton.