Reassuring Tales - Couverture rigide

T.E.D. Klein

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1963887042 ISBN 13 : 9781963887044

Editeur : Chiroptera Press, 2024

Synopsis

Chiroptera Press proudly presents Reassuring Tales by T.E.D. Klein. Our deluxe edition includes new illustrations by artist Eli John, and includes expanded material as seen in the Pickman's Press edition.

Synopsis:

Collecting a dozen stories, along with verse, an essay on Arthur Machen, story notes, and an interview gathered from sources ranging from hardcover anthologies to Lovecraftian fanzines to a children’s magazine, Reassuring Tales presents a striking overview of Klein’s career over six decades.

It opens with one of his most remarkable creations, inspired by the framed journal structure in Machen’s “The White People,” in which an English instructor offers trenchant commentary on the gothic tradition from Shakespeare to Faulkner while increasingly uncanny and threatening “Events at Poroth Farm” take shape around him. Later expanded into the British Fantasy Award-winning novel The Ceremonies, the original has lost none of its power to compel and chill in the 52 years since publication.

Accompanying it are a clutch of briefer stories in a variety of modes, leavened with the irony implicit in the collection’s title, manifested not only through wit, but also in the tension between the stable, comfortable reality we wish existed and the destabilizing forces lying at its fringes. Thus the seemingly innocuous campfire tales in “One Size Eats All,” the flattering enticements of the “Well-Connected,” the fear of exposure that makes a person “Camera Shy,” the strange pattern that leads a man to the “Ladder,” the shifts in reality that mean “Curtains for Nat Crumley,” the anxiety a new homeowner might feel as he senses “Growing Things,” the border between shadow and self in “Imagining Things,” and more are handled with a deft mordant magic worthy of Ambrose Bierce or L.P. Hartley, while “They Don’t Write ’Em Like This Anymore” acts as a bittersweet epilogue.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chiroptera Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1963887042
• ISBN 13: 9781963887044
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Eli John
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible