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 Stories From A
Lost Anthology
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- by Rhys Hughes
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- Introduction by Michael
Moorcock
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- Stories From a Lost
Anthology is the third collection of tales by Rhys
Hughes, an acknowledged master of the strange story,
published by Tartarus Press. As in his earlier
collections, Worming the Harpy (1995) and
The Smell of Telescopes (2000), Hughes’s
plotting and puns are frequently outrageous, but somehow,
through a strong but warped internal logic, all is made
probable, even believable.
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- Many of
the tales in Stories From A Lost Anthology
are set in the author’s native Wales,
although they may not describe that country as the
official guidebooks would have it. Have you ever wondered
what happens in the rooms above a Welsh public house? Or
to a vampire when it’s polarity is reversed? And how
exactly would you kidnap Dylan Thomas, a half-century
after his death? As Michael Moorcock says, Hughes is
a:
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daffy Dunsany, full of knowing favours, canny to the
calls of a thousand rarees, this modern original is as
eccentric as the great eighteenth-century mavericks he
sometimes resembles. Few living fictioneers approach this
chef's sardonic confections, certainly not in English.
Perhaps Calvino comes to mind and The Misfortunes of
Elphin offers a few echoes, to mention Meredith's
father-in-law again. For me Shagpat and Farina itch at
his references, but I suspect he's unfamiliar with
Meredith in that droll, un-moral mode. If he's unfamiliar
with any work of fiction at all, of course. He has
clearly at some point swallowed a library."
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- Stories From A Lost
Anthology is a sewn hardback book of 296+viii
pages. Limited to 400 copies.
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- Price
£27.50/$55 inc. p&p.
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- To read
A Languid
Elagabalus Of The Tombs from Stories from a
Lost Anthology right-click with your mouse on the title
and choose "Save target as". You can then decide where to
download the story onto your computer. You will need
Adobe Acrobat to be able to view the story.
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- Reviews:
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"I
will refrain from waxing lyrically over any more of the
stories found in this collection, although there is much
to admire here. Each piece is more varied and wonderful
than the last but less striking than the one
ahead." - Kayalucia Lauwerys, Cemetery
Dance
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- "More
than a collection of non-traditional storytelling and
narrative invention, Stories From A Lost Anthology is a
challenging assemblage of unique ideas expressed in an
unusual, captivating style by an author systematically
creating a fresh, unique world by a recasting of elements
of the old." - William Simmons,
Infinity
Plus
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- "...if you care at all about originality,
and fun, and thrills and spills and spellbinding." -
Steve Duffy, All Hallows
Page updated
23rd March 2008
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