To Charles Fort, with Love
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To Charles Fort, with Love
TO CHARLES FORT, WITH LOVE is award-winning fantasist Caitlin R. Kiernan s third collection of short fiction, a haunting parade of the terrible things which may lie beyond the boundaries of science, the minds which may exist beyond psychology, and the forbidden places which will never be located in any orthodox globe. To quote the object of Kiernan s affection, meta-poet and arch-enemy of dogma Charles Hoy Fort,
The little harlots will caper, and freaks will distract attention, and the clowns will break the rhythm of the whole with their buffooneries--but the solidity of the procession as a whole: the impressiveness of things that pass and pass and pass, and keep on and keep on and keep on coming.
A deceptively even dozen, this collection includes Kiernan s celebrated stories
Onion
and
Andromeda Among the Stones,
as well as a number of more obscure pieces. Though Kiernan was recently praised as
the new Lovecraft,
these stories stand as testimony that she will never be merely the
new
anyone, that hers is a unique and demanding voice entirely unlike any other.
Horror
The Good House
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The Good House
Angela Toussaint's family, and her family home, seem haunted by death and tragedy. Is there a mundane explanation for the deaths, or are they being caused by some evil outside force?
Horror
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
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The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
The story of Icabod Crane, set in the Hudson River valley of the 1700s.
Horror
Town That Forgot How to Breathe
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Town That Forgot How to Breathe
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Horror
Ring
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Ring
Four teenagers in a remote mountain cabin play a mysterious unlabeled videotape, a bizarre series of images that ends with a dire warning. Exactly one week later, all four are dead of apparent heart failure. The uncle of one of the victims, reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa, scents a story, and his pursuit of the truth leads him to view the tape himself. He quickly realizes that there is some sort of malevolent intent behind the creation of the tape, and unless he can discover the source of that intent and determine what it wants, he, his loved ones, and perhaps even the entire world, will come under the influence of the tape and be doomed by it. A bestseller in Japan, RING has spawned two sequels, a manga series, a Japanese TV series, and several films in both Japan and the United States. Koji Suzuki has been referred to as the Japanese Stephen King, and certainly this novel and its spinoffs have done much to make Japanese horror popular in the United States.
Horror
Tales of Terror
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Tales of Terror
The definitive story of EC Comics, the most notorious and well-regarded mass-market publisher in comics history. The EC line (MAD, Tales from the Crypt, Weird Science, etc.) was a high point in terms of craft and presentation. From the humanistic, well-paced writing of editor Harvey Kurtzman to the artwork of lauded masters like Wally Wood and Bernie Krigstein, what truly sets EC apart in comics history is its wider influence on American pop culture. Horror, crime and sci-fi stories in the EC tradition are a staple of movies and television almost 50 years after their original heyday, and the original stories themselves were many readers' first exposure to these now-ubiquitous cultural trends.MAD magazine has been a rite of passage for three generations of American comedians, while Kurtzman's war comics—Two-Fisted Tales andFrontline Combat—were not only amongst the very first comic books ever to successfully express human drama but were also perhaps the first popular entertainment in any medium to look at America's involvement in the Korean War and other conflicts with anything less than a strictly nationalistic and patriotic eye.Every EC title is included in this comprehensive volume that uncovers the amazing history behind the comics, up to the US Senate driving EC out of business for allegedly corrupting America's youth (EC publisher Bill Gaines' testimony to a U.S. Senate Subcomittee—one of the most capricious political witch hunts this side of Joseph McCarthy—is included). Legendary EC creators like Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels and others are all represented, including previously unpublished interviews with several. Best of all, every EC cover is reproduced in full color. Co-published with Gemstone Comics, the official licensor of the EC line, and fully authorized by the estate of EC's Bill Gaines. Hundreds of lavish full-color pages.
Horror
