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Fancies and Goodnights (New York Review Books Classics)by John Collier
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Selected and with an introduction by longtime Collier fan Ray Bradbury, this is a collection of Collier's wild and sardonic tales that graced the pages of The New Yorker. Review:"Here is a world of moonshine and madness, of suburbia invaded by fiends and angels, of magic spells, grotesque melodrama and lunatic farce, surprising, ludicrous, terrifying." The New York Times Review:"Intense like poems, compressed like epigrams, short stories have always inclined to the lyrical and biting. No story writer ever bit more sharply or wrote more gracefully than John Collier. When I first encountered his work, twenty-five years ago, I was shocked by his plots and delighted by his cruelty; now I take my delight in the dark silky stuff of his prose style, and the shock lies in his faultless execution and in his mastery of craft. If you don't know his work, you owe yourself the pleasure — the indispensable pleasure — of Collier." Michael Chabon Review:"Mr. Collier, like one of his own characters, has produced a 'four-star classic...thrilling enough for the most hardened lowbrow, and so perfectly written as to compel the homage of connoisseurs.'" H.H. Holmes, The New York Herald Tribune Synopsis:First published in 1951, John Collier's wild and sardonic tales, which were for many years a fixture in the pages of The New Yorker. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. Synopsis:"John Collier's wild and sardonic tales, which were for many years a fixture in the pages of The New Yorker, are, in the opinion of his many devoted admirers, as good as - indeed better than - the best of Saki and Roald Dahl. In stories that explore the logic of lunacy, presenting the most fantastical occurrences as commonplace fact, Collier not only tickles the fancy, but tests our nerve, making us wonder just how deep and firmly placed are the foundations of the (seemingly) real world. Here longtime Collier fan Ray Bradbury re-introduces this singular modern genius. "
Synopsis:John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald Dahl. With a cast of characters that ranges from man-eating flora to disgruntled devils and suburban salarymen (not that it's always easy to tell one from another), Collier's dazzling stories explore the implacable logic of lunacy, revealing a surreal landscape whose unstable surface is depth-charged with surprise. About the AuthorJohn Collier (1901–1980) was born in London. He began his writing career as a poet, first publishing in 1920. He turned to fiction in the early 1930s, producing the popular and controversial novel, His Monkey Wife, about a man who is married to a chimpanzee. In 1935 Collier left England for Hollywood, where he became an active and prolific writer for film and later television; he was particularly influential in developing the brilliantly creepy and subversive style of such television classics as Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. Table of ContentsIntroduction Bottle Party 1 De Mortuis 9 Evening Primrose 16 Witch's Money 28 Are You Too Late or Was I Too Early 40 Fallen Star 44 The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It 56 Three Bears Cottage 64 Pictures in the Fire 70 Wet Saturday 84 Squirrels Have Bright Eyes 91 Halfway to Hell 97 The Lady on the Grey 104 Incident on a Lake 112 Over Insurance 118 Old Acquaintance 124 The Frog Prince 132 Season of Mists 138 Great Possibilities 146 Without Benefit of Galsworthy 154 The Devil George and Rosie 159 Ah the University 178 Back for Christmas 182 Another American Tragedy 188 Collaboration 195 Midnight Blue 202 Gavin O Leary 208 If Youth Knew If Age Could 217 Thus I Refute Beelzy 228 Special Delivery 233 Rope Enough 249 Little Memento 255 Green Thoughts 260 Romance Lingers Adventure Lives 275 Bird of Prey 279 Variation on a Theme 287 Night Youth Paris and the Moon 299 The Steel Cat 304 Sleeping Beauty 311 Interpretation of a Dream 327 Mary 333 Hell Hath No Fury 346 In The Cards 352 The Invisible Dove Dancer of Strathpheen Island 358 The Right Side 365 Spring Fever 370 Youth From Vienna 378 Possession of Angela Bradshaw 398 Cancel All I Said 403 The Chaser 415 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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