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| Title | : | The Hashish Man and Other Stories |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1933149043 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
Tales of the dreamer Lord Dunsany's works are gradually coming back into print, a great relief to someone who has liked his works for a long time. The pre-Tolkien fantasy authors are too often neglected because of their different style, but any person who appreciates beautiful language will appreciate Dunsany's unique fantasies.This includes such stories as "Charon," a brief story about the ferryman of the dead; the rather odd "Three Infernal Jokes"; "The Guest," about . In the Ruined Temple, at Dusk Dark Mechanicus JSG The world is still haunted, and there are yet gods in the wild places.The gods abide, grim and wicked and gentle and brooding, in our forlorn, crazed, forsaken world. In the still of a country night you can feel them, pressing close on the wind: the forlorn gods who whisper about the crumbling hillside shrines. The nautical, bloodthirsty gods of the tropic Deep, who rose out of sea-slug haunted temples in the Pacific to feast on the anguish of Capta. The Best Dunsany Anthology in Print This, to my knowledge, is the only volume in print thatcontains a representative selection of Dunsany's short stories. What'smore, the editor did a good job of choosing some of the very best ofDunsany's short fiction. Those who bother to read his introduction, however, will wish that the editor had spent a little more time and thought on this part of the book. The gratuitous jab at Dunsany's later novels is out of place.But intelligent readers shoul
Fanciful tales of strange adventure in imaginary exotic locales and depictions of otherworldly grim creepiness abound.. In this collection of 23 short stories, one of the original masters of early-twentieth-century science fiction and fantasy is introduced to a new generation of readers
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