Crucified dreams

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Published
San Francisco, CA : Tachyon 2011.
Language
English
Other Authors
Joe R. Lansdale, 1951- (-)
Item Description
"Tales of urban horror"--Cover.
Physical Description
374 p.
ISBN
9781616960032
  • The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison
  • The monster / Joe Haldeman
  • The Mojave two-step / Norman Partridge
  • Front man / David Morrell
  • Interrogation B / Charlie Huston
  • The quickening / Michael Bishop
  • The evening and the morning and the night / Octavia E. Butler
  • Love in vain / Lewis Shiner
  • Beast of the heartland / Lucius Shepard
  • Coffins on the river / Jeffrey Ford
  • Gaem night at the Fox and Goose / Karen Joy Fowler
  • Copping squid / Michael Shea
  • Access fantasy / Jonathan Lethem
  • Singing on a star / Ellen Klages
  • Quitters, Inc. / Stephen King
  • Nightbeat / Neal Barrett, Jr.
  • Window / Bob Leman
  • The pit / Joe R. Lansdale
  • Loss / Tom Piccirilli.
Review by Booklist Review

This collection of 19 previously published short stories should appeal to fans of horror and fantasy. There are some famous names here Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Joe Haldeman, Jonathan Lethem, and editor Lansdale, of course and others that devoted genre fans will recognize (Tom Piccirilli, Jeffrey Ford, and Octavia Butler). The stories, while united by the anthology's theme of urban horror, vary quite a bit from one to another. Readers will find, under one roof, fantasy, psychological horror, noir, even literary experimentation (Lethem's Access Fantasy is a single, unbroken paragraph that runs for about 6,000 words). It's a solid collection of horror-themed fiction, although it's worth noting that genre fans may have read most of these stories elsewhere (like King's classic Quitters, Inc., from his own 1978 anthology, Night Shift). Still, the quality of the contributions makes this anthology a good bet for all horror collections.--Pitt, David Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Apart from a misleading subtitle, Lansdale's anthology of 19 reprinted stories is solid, comprising a variety of stories from both new and well-known authors. While Harlan Ellison's superb "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" and Octavia Butler's impressive "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" certainly qualify as urban horror, many others clearly do not. David Morrell's "Front Man" is an economically written and suspenseful crime tale but not particularly scary. The desert of Norman Partridge's "The Mojave Two-Step" and the Vietnamese jungle of Joe Haldeman's "The Monster" are not exactly urban. Readers who curtail their genre expectations will be better able to appreciate the diverse themes and approaches of these stories, even the ones that don't represent the authors' best work. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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