Author: Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434447073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"[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!
Magic Terror
Author: Peter Straub
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007109911
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A collection of short stories from the acclaimed master of horror. Peter Straub leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche in these seven tales of living, dying and the terror that lies in between.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007109911
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A collection of short stories from the acclaimed master of horror. Peter Straub leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche in these seven tales of living, dying and the terror that lies in between.
Echoes of the Goddess
Author: Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434447073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"[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!
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434447073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"[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!
William Austin
Author: Walter Austin
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature
Author: Brian J. Frost
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879728601
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In this fascinating book, Brian J. Frost presents the first full-scale survey of werewolf literature covering both fiction and nonfiction works. He identifies principal elements in the werewolf myth, considers various theories of the phenomenon of shapeshifting, surveys nonfiction books, and traces the myth from its origins in ancient superstitions to its modern representations in fantasy and horror fiction. Frost's analysis encompasses fanciful medieval beliefs, popular works by Victorian authors, scholarly treatises and medical papers, and short stories from pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. Revealing the complex nature of the werewolf phenomenon and its tremendous and continuing influence, The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature is destined to become a standard reference on the subject.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879728601
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
In this fascinating book, Brian J. Frost presents the first full-scale survey of werewolf literature covering both fiction and nonfiction works. He identifies principal elements in the werewolf myth, considers various theories of the phenomenon of shapeshifting, surveys nonfiction books, and traces the myth from its origins in ancient superstitions to its modern representations in fantasy and horror fiction. Frost's analysis encompasses fanciful medieval beliefs, popular works by Victorian authors, scholarly treatises and medical papers, and short stories from pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. Revealing the complex nature of the werewolf phenomenon and its tremendous and continuing influence, The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature is destined to become a standard reference on the subject.
Notes and Queries
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Catalogue of a Portion [1st and 2d] of the Very Extensive Library of the Late James Crossley
Author: James Crossley
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Mechanics' Institute, of the City of New-York
Author: New York (N.Y.). Mechanics' institute
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
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Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Baltimore, 1858
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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