Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories - Couverture souple

Beaumont, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143107658 ISBN 13 : 9780143107651

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2015

Synopsis

By Beaumont, Charles ( Author ) [ Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories By Oct-2015 Paperback

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"This fresh collection of Beaumont's weird fiction is rife with fantastical tropes and twist endings...Twist endings get a bad rap in our oh-so-sophisticated millennium, but in Perchance to Dream, they're in the hands of a master...Throughout the book, Beaumont challenges perception, norms, and our smug reliance on appearances, using supernatural and science-fictional elements to drive home his points — sometimes gently, sometimes jarringly...[Beaumont’s] imagination, as Perchance to Dream amply shows, was more than most writer's enjoy in the longest of lifetimes."
-NPR

"Beaumont’s stories offer flashes of true horror, subverting shock value with vertiginous questions about good, evil and human nature."
—The Seattle Times

"Creepy, melancholy short stories from the mid-20th-century master...Each with its satisfying twist, often surprisingly surprising, these stories charm and entertain."
-Kirkus

“In every genre he explored, Beaumont wrote with style, with a sure sense of his characters. His stories are often haunting, and though their concerns are ever enduring, they provide a clear window into the fears and hopes of his time.”
–Dean Koontz

“The name of Charles Beaumont will be honored and recognized for generations yet to come.”
—Robert Bloch

 "Terrifically creepy pieces that almost always end with a twist...Beaumont deserves the wider audience this volume can provide."
—Library Journal

"As a writer, Beaumont never seemed particularly concerned with observing the hard boundary lines of genre, and sometimes slipped over it and across again with gleeful abandon. As a writer of imaginative fiction, Beaumont was especially adept at the use of fiction as an object lesson, using it as a mirror to force readers to confront their own complacency and small-mindedness. In Beaumont’s hands, wishes become nightmares, and the road to hell is always paved with good intentions."
—Suvudu

"This is a worthwhile and important collection, preserving an author’s work for a new generation of readers. Read them. Get angry. Be shocked. Laugh. Charles Beaumont’s work will certainly provoke your imagination."
—Weird Fiction Review

Biographie de l'auteur :

Charles Beaumont (b. Charles Nutt) was born in Chicago in 1929. He led a strange, isolated childhood, leading him to develop an adventurous imagination. In tenth grade, he dropped out of high school to join the army, and later moved to Los Angeles to seek a career as an actor, writer, or artist. In 1954, his story "Black Country" became the first story published in Playboy magazine. Over the course of the next ten years, he published two novels, three collections of short stories, and penned an estimated twenty-two episodes for The Twilight Zone. He died in 1967.Ray Bradbury had a career spanning more than seventy years. A prolific author of hundreds of short stories and close to fifty books, as well as numerous poems, essays, operas, plays, teleplays, and screenplays, Bradbury was one of the most celebrated writers of our time. William Shatner has cultivated a career spanning over 50 years as an award-winning actor, director, producer, writer, recording artist, and horseman. He is one of Hollywood's most recognizable figures.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0143107658
• ISBN 13: 9780143107651
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336