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The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy
Stevens
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Description for The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy
Paperback. A collection of tales that have played an integral role in the development of modern dark fantasy. Editor(s): Hoppenstand, Gary. Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination. Num Pages: 406 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
Slithering from these pages are never-before-collected tales of suspense and wonder by the woman who invented modern-day dark fantasy: A man goes quietly to bed aboard the doomed Lusitania and awakens on a magical South Pacific Island just as the passenger liner is torpedoed. In a future where women rule the world, a sentient island becomes murderously jealous of a shipwrecked couple. Dire consequences await a human swept into the dark, magical world of elves. A deadly labyrinth coils around the dark heart of a picturesque landscape garden. Within an Egyptian sarcophagus lies the horrifying price of infidelity. Swirling unseen ... Read more
Slithering from these pages are never-before-collected tales of suspense and wonder by the woman who invented modern-day dark fantasy: A man goes quietly to bed aboard the doomed Lusitania and awakens on a magical South Pacific Island just as the passenger liner is torpedoed. In a future where women rule the world, a sentient island becomes murderously jealous of a shipwrecked couple. Dire consequences await a human swept into the dark, magical world of elves. A deadly labyrinth coils around the dark heart of a picturesque landscape garden. Within an Egyptian sarcophagus lies the horrifying price of infidelity. Swirling unseen ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
Series
Bison Frontiers of Imagination
Number of Pages
406
Place of Publication
Nebraska, United States
ISBN
9780803292987
SKU
V9780803292987
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About Stevens
Francis Stevens, a pseudonym for Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948), is the author of such classics as The Citadel of Fear and The Heads of Cerberus. Gary Hoppenstand is a professor of American studies at Michigan State University. He was nominated twice for the World Fantasy Award and won the Popular Culture Association's National Book Award for editing Popular Fiction: An ... Read more
Reviews for The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy
“Stevens was an interesting, highly original author who brought new motifs into pulp fiction.”—Everett F. Bleiler, Science Fiction Studies