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Bibliography item 19
Worming the Harpy and Other Bitter Pills
by Rhys Hughes
1995
item 19a: first edition
Description: Sewn hardback, printed and bound by Antony Rowe
Pages: 203
Dustwrapper: design and text in gold on black, laminated
Limitation: 200 numbered copies, plus 26 which were lettered A-Z and signed by the author
ISBN: 187262120X
Publication: 1995
Price: £14.95
Contents: Cat O' Nine Tales/ Worming the Harpy/ The Falling Star/ Quasimodulus/ The Good News Grimoire/ Fintlock Jaw/ Velocity Oranges/ A Carpet Seldom Found/ The Chimney/ One Man's Meat/ The man Who Mistook His Wife's Hat For The Mad Hatter's Wife/ Cello I Love You/ What to do when the Devil Comes Round to Tea/ Arquebus for Harlequin/ Eclair de Lune/ Grinding the Goblin.
Notes: Original horror collection by British author.
item 19b: paperback edition
Description: Paperback printed and bound by Antony Rowe
Pages: 231
Limitation: none
ISBN: 978-1-905784-31-8
Publication: 10th February 2011
Price: £14.95
Contents: as above
item 19b: ebook edition
Description: ebook in mobi and epub formats
Contents: as above
Reviews:
'The stories are essentially literature in its purest form--wonderfully rumbustuous, humorous, word-magical fantasies, liberally peppered with honest-to-goodness horror. They remind me of Lord Dunsany, John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Jack Vance, involving fabulous traditions of surrealism, fairy stories and piquant wit . . . Rhys Hughes’ book is one that I had dreamed of reading but never thought I’d be so lucky ever to do so in real life.' Deathrealm
'Rhys Hughes is a very good writer . . . a fabulist whose sense of the absurd is peerless.' Grotesque
'The overall tone is one of disturbing, occasionally shocking surrealism . . . fans and others who are looking for something significantly offbeat in supernatural fiction will be delighted with this, his first book.' All Hallows
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