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- Morbid Tales
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- by Quentin S.
Crisp
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- Introduction by Mark
Samuels
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- In these eight immaculately realised strange stories,
Quentin S. Crisp delves deep into the decadence of contemporary life.
The fresh originality of the tales and their settings: an English
country garden in ‘Cousin X’; contemporary Japan in ‘A Lake’: is matched
by the elegance of the writing. They are unified, perhaps, by a yearning
for the achingly perfect, ecstatic moment. As Mark Samuels points out in
his Foreword, Crisp’s fiction is ‘. . . too multi-layered, too
individual, to be labelled. One can spot influences here and there, a
dash of this and a sprinkling of that, but the end result is much
greater than the sum of its parts.’
Contains: Foreword, The Mermaid, Far-Off Things, Cousin
X, A Lake, The Two-Timer, The Tattooist, Ageless, Autumn Colours.
ISBN 978-1-905784-36-3
Morbid Tales is a paperback
book of 267 pages, price: £12.95/$22 inc p&p
Also avaiable as an ebook, £3.50
Reviews:
- Crisp will surprise and delight you with his
marvellous writing skill and the ability to convey a profound sense of
universal horror, cosmic menace and spiritual desolation. - Mario
Guslandi, The Alien
Online
Attempting to find a frozen
moment, description, or phenomena with which to express a breath of
cosmic fear and awe, Crisp achieves with this collection a remarkable
scrapbook of terror. - William Simmons, Cemetery Dance
The power of the best stories here is in the way in
which Crisp has been able to use his influences to reflect deep within
himself and draw out something that is strikingly new. - Douglas
Campbell, All
Hallows
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