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Bezig met laden... The Darkdoor Ellen Datlow (Redacteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Leaving the house without a book this morning meant that I *had* to go book shopping at the first opportunity. This collection was an excellent find; it will be interesting to compare it to the collection of classic ghost stories I picked up a while ago. It took me nearly two months of searching, but I finally found a collection of ghost stories I really like. (That isn't M.R. James, Sarah Monette, or Algernon Blackwood, that is.) Of course, it's an Ellen Datlow collection. I should have known. "Limbo" by Lucius Shepard was rather wonderful (up to a disappointing twist at the end), but the standout for me was Tanith Lee's "The Ghost of the Clock." Had me checking behind me all evening. A collection of new stories, never before published, by some pretty heavy hitters -- including, Tanith Lee, Gahan Wilson, Ramsey Campbell, Joyce Carol Oates & Lucius Shepard. Inevitably, the quality is variable, but not egregiously so. My favorites tend towards the more elliptical, particularly: "The Silence of the Falling Stars" by Mike O'Driscoll, "An Amicable Divorce" by Daniel Abraham, and, especially, "Dancing Men" by Glen Hirshberg. The latter is a truly exceptional story that mingles themes as diverse as the Holocaust and Native American ritual, while being filled with ghastly little comic bits. 1. FORD, Jeffery: "Trentino Kid, The" 2. LEE, Tanith: "Ghost of the Clock, The" 3. DOWLING, Terry: "One Thing About the Night" 4. O'DRISCOLL, Mike: "Silence of the Falling Stars, The" 5. WILSON, Gahan: "Dead Ghost, The" 6. CADY, Jack: "Seven Sisters" 7. OATES, Joyce Carol: "Subway" 8. GALLAGHER, Stephen: "Doctor Hood" 9. ABRAHAM, Daniel: "Amicable Divorce, An" 10. CAMPBELL, Ramsey: "Feeling Remains" 11. McCRUMB, Sharyn: "Gallows Necklace, The" 12. GRANT, Charles L.: "Brownie, and Me" 13. KOJA, Kathe: "Velocity" 14. SHEPARD, Lucius: "Limbo" 15. LINK, Kelly: "Hortlak, The" 16. HIRSHBERG, Glen: "Dancing Men" geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Modern audiences have long inured themselves to fear, trained themselves to shut off their childish nighttime terrors and scoff in the face of deliberate scares. But award winning anthologist Ellen Datlow--called "the genre's sharpest assembler of strange, dark fictions" by William Gibson, author ofNeuromancer--was convinced that there was life in the ghost story yet. So she challenged a list of varied and talented contributors to scare the heck out of her. The resultant collection singlehandedly redefines the ghost story, going far beyond the accustomed tropes and gore of horror stories to consider the only realm that still truly scares us: the unknown.The Dark takes a nuanced and disquieting look at the tormented and unquiet dead; the darkness in us, the living; and the sometimes tenuous boundary between the two. Under the covers ofThe Dark, you will find a gathering of sixteen original, unique ghost stories, deftly penned by authors versed in the argot of the damned, including Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Ford, Glen Hirshberg, Tanith Lee, Kelly Link, Sharyn McCrumb, Joyce Carol Oates, Lucius Shepard, and Gahan Wilson. No two stories are alike; all are calculated to make it hard to be alone with the lights out. This is the stuff nightmares are made of. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.0873308Literature English (North America) American fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Horror fiction; Ghost fiction Ghost fiction CollectionsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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