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 Sequel to Strange Tales, the World
Fantasy Award winner, 2004
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- Strange Tales, Volume II
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- edited by Rosalie Parker
- Stories by Joel Knight, Quentin S. Crisp,
Katherine Haynes, Stephen Holman, Mark Valentine, Adam
Golaski, Dale Nelson, Simon Strantzas, Anne-Sylvie
Salzman, David Rix, Rhys Hughes, Angela Slatter, Barbara
Roden, Roger Dunkley, Elizabeth Brown, Christopher Harman
and Hilbourne Carlone.
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- A
'Strange Tale' is a short story that explores a fantastic
idea, supernatural or psychological, with the intention
of causing, through its own logical development,
uncertainty or unease about that which the reader takes
for granted. The outward appearance of the story can vary
infinitely from the traditional to the experimental, from
the serious to the comic, but in each case the
assumptions of the reader are undermined to a degree that
they find uncomfortable. The Strange Tale is a form that
moves effortlessly between the various genres (as all
good fiction should).
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- In this
new volume, the Strange Tales on offer range from the
dark realism of 'What Water Reveals' by Adam Golaski
through to the surreal 'The Concise Picaresque Adventures
of the Wanderlust Bridge' by Rhys Hughes. From the
subtlety of 'The Fairy Killer' by Quentin S. Crisp to the
horror of 'Sejanus' Daughter' by Hilbourne Carlone (Don
Tumasonis). From the urban horror of 'Calico Black,
Calico Blue' by Joel Knight, to the rural strangeness of
'Pastor Arrhenius and The Maiden Brita' by Dale Nelson.
From the traditionally told 'Llanfihangel' by Elizabeth
Brown to the range of contemporary documentation offered
in 'The Magpies' by David Rix.
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- Within
this collection of seventeen new stories you are sure to
discover some that will cause you to wonder what worlds
might exist beyond the apparently everyday.
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- Strange Tales, Volume II is a sewn hardback
book of 327+vi pages with silk ribbon marker, head and
tailbands, and d/w.
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- ISBN
978-1-905784-05-9.
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- Price:
£30/$60 inc. p&p.
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- The
above illustration is the dustjacket vignette. The book
also includes a frontispeice by Mike Kerins.
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- See also
the original Strange
Tales volume.
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- Special offer: buy
both together for just £45/$90.
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- Review for the new collection:
- '...a
very rewarding reading experience producing that pleasant
uneasiness and discomfort that any admirer of "strange"
tales is seeking in dark fiction of good quality.' Mario
Guslandi, The
Agony Column.
Reviews for the original Strange
Tales collection:
- 'Few
of the contributions to Rosalie Parker’s beautifully
presented collection of new short stories fail to
unsettle or disturb, and yet, as a whole, the volume’s
success can be attributed to the sheer variety of tone,
effect and subject matter.' - Dara Downey,
The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror
Studies
- "Taken as a whole, Strange Tales is one
of the best original anthologies of recent years."
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David Longhorn, Supernatural Tales
- "A
most impressive feature of the collection is the eclectic
variety of style and content, and the way in which the
various tales forge themselves into a collective
exploration of 'strangeness' that is most disconcerting.
As such, it fulfils the true purpose of an anthology: not
simply a mix of interesting pieces, but a cohesive whole
infused with a unifying vision, something greater than
the sum of the total parts. Quite apart from the
intrinsic merits of the stories, this book is, as much as
anything, a triumph of editing by Rosalie Parker. . .
This excellent volume is presented with all the quality
one has come to expect from Tartarus." - Peter Bell,
All Hallows
- "At
the end of this entertaining anthology the reader is left
not only with the pleasant sensation that his time and
his money have not been wasted, but with the reassuring
discovery that weird horror fiction is alive and well and
that, due to a number of emerging new talents, the future
of the genre appears to be bright." - Mario
Guslandi, Infinity
Plus.
Page updated
23rd March 2008
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