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E-bok
Engelska, 201930 kr
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“An excellent collection” of vampire stories, from authors such as Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and Fritz Leiber (Publishers Weekly). Renowned editor Ellen Datlow has gathered seventeen variations on vampirism ranging from classically Gothic to postmodern satire, from horrific to erotic. These stories reflect the evolution of vampire literature from Bram Stoker to Anne Rice and beyond, resulting in a deeper exploration of their inner lives. Expanding the concept of vampirism to include the draining of a person’s will or life force, Datlow’s collection transcends the traditional “black capes and teeth marks on the neck” to reinvent an eternally fascinating subgenre of horror. In Harlan Ellison’s “Try a Dull Knife,” an empath stumbles bleeding into a nightclub, on the run from emotional vampires. A Broadway actress steals the emotions of her fellow performers in “. . . To Feel Another’s Woe” by Chet Williamson. And in “The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be,” Gahan Wilson offers his own surreal twist on Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” as two strangers on a beach lure intoxicated picnickers to a different kind of picnic . . . Blood Is Not Enough includes contributions by Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Garry Kilworth, Harlan Ellison, Scott Baker, Leonid Andreyev, Harvey Jacobs, S. N. Dyer, Edward Bryant, Fritz Leiber, Tanith Lee, Susan Casper, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, Chet Williamson, Joe Haldeman, and Pat Cadigan.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
563 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2017
326 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2018
253 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 202675 kr
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The Jim Dandy Traveling Amusement Fair is a small carnival on the road. The carnies—a family of oddballs, grifters, students, and a retired grandmother—are making their way in the world, but just barely. Their latest encampment may be haunted… or it may just be dirty local politics. But one thing is certain: the carnival will never be the same. Demonic possession, earthly threats, and a guardian dragon spirit will combine to make The Red Carnival one the locals—and the reader—will never forget. Reviews:"e;At times dark and unsettling, Casper's novel holds the same wonderful prose and love of the uncanny as her published short fiction."e; —Library Journal "e;I love Casper's style. It is truly gritty, edgy, compelling, dark and emotional. In this case, there is a stark and sinister force at this carny in the town of Somerset that makes all the festival lights turn red. There is a ride that appears out of nowhere, not attested to by the carny operators, called 'Golgotha, Place of Skulls,' and there comes a frenzy of violence by the carnygo'ers and carny staff. There is an impulsivity to this narrative that is disturbing, yet almost amusing."e; —True Review "e;Susan wrote this book with the kind of enthusiasm and love that every writer wants to have for their own work. I kept waiting for her to sell it—she never did. I wish she had because it deserved to be read. I'm so glad it's getting an audience now. I wish I could hug Susan and tell her what a great book she wrote and what a fine, gifted, and beautiful writer she is."e; —Pat Cadigan "e;Take it from a guy who wrote a four-book series about a carnival, Susan Casper knew her stuff. The Red Carnival is a remarkable blend of power and sensitivity."e; —Mike Resnick "e;The Red Carnival is so intensely atmospheric that you look up from the book expecting to see the bozo, the ten-in-one, the hootchy kootchy tent. Susan Casper's harrowing novel explores the most terrifying of all ideas: that not only can any one of us be tortured by evil, any one of us can become it. Casper understands not only how fragile human beings are, but how strong. And you will never again look at a carnival the same way."e; —Nancy Kress "e;The Red Carnival continues a great American literary tradition, dark fantasy novels about wandering carnivals. Casper's novel belongs on the same shelf as Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes and Charles G. Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao."e; —Allen M. Steele "e;Susan Casper was a damn good short story writer. And lucky for us, in addition to the recent publication of her collected short fiction, we now have The Red Carnival, a previously unpublished dark fantasy novel from her fine creative mind."e; —Ellen Datlow