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Fancies and Goodnights (New York Review Books Classics)

by John Collier

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ISBN13: 9781590170519
ISBN10: 1590170512
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Publisher 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 Author

John 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 Contents

Introduction
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

Product Details

ISBN:
9781590170519
Introduction by:
Bradbury, Ray
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Introduction:
Bradbury, Ray
Author:
Collier, John
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Fantasy fiction, English
Copyright:
Edition Number:
Reprint ed.
Series:
New York Review Books Classics
Publication Date:
May 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
418
Dimensions:
8.01x5.05x.97 in. 1.00 lbs.
Age Level:
12-UP
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