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Read [M. Rickert Book] ! Holiday Online ^ PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Holiday Valentine’s Day is celebrated with Journey into the Kingdom,” winner of the World Fantasy Award, where a young girl falls in love with a ghost. Ghosts and mythic beings populate this holiday-themed collection of eleven tales to read by candlelight. A surreal Halloween story, You Have Never Been Here,” asks if the body is the mask we all wear. These eleven tales, eerie, mysterious, and creepy, honor the human experience of death and redemption. A Veteran’s day story, War i
| Title | : | Holiday |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.78 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1930846657 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 164 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
Valentine’s Day is celebrated with Journey into the Kingdom,” winner of the World Fantasy Award, where a young girl falls in love with a ghost. Ghosts and mythic beings populate this holiday-themed collection of eleven tales to read by candlelight. A surreal Halloween story, You Have Never Been Here,” asks if the body is the mask we all wear. These eleven tales, eerie, mysterious, and creepy, honor the human experience of death and redemption. A Veteran’s day story, War is Beautiful,” features a soldier in the Vietnam War who befriends a local girlor is she a ghost? The collection ends with a Halloween to Christmas tale, The Christmas Witch,” where a lonely, little girl struggles to survive in a town of children that collect bones.Holidays are days of honor. A May Day wedding in The Machine” is a tale of innocence lost and terrible revenge, a story not for the faint of h
"The Darkness and Beauty of the Human Heart" according to Richard Bowes. The Darkness and Beauty of the Human HeartThere are a few who write dark fantasy short stories as well as Mary Rickert. But none, I think, who write them better. It's a measure of her talent that one can no more summarize these stories than one can reconstruct a dream. Images, revelations are what remain: abducted boys return as wolves, a strange family finds a far stranger seaside town, a daughter betrays her mother in our brutal future.These stories appeared on many awards li
From Publishers Weekly Combining fantasy with slow-burning, dreamlike horror, Rickert's second collection (after 2006's Map of Dreams) includes several seasonal stories that make The Nightmare Before Christmas look like a Charlie Brown special. Fans of Rickert's talent for atmospheric, artistic terror will find plenty to enjoy in this slim volume. In "Memoir of a Deer Woman," a woman's incurable slow transformation into a deer comes upon her like a cancer. . The cheerful brutality of a disturbed child is a fatally bad mat
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