A Season in Carcosa
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (824 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1937408000 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 292 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Featuring - Joel Lane Simon Strantzas Don Webb Daniel Mills Gary McMahon Ann K. Kristin Prevallet Richard A. Schwader Cate Gardner Edward Morris Richard Gavin Joseph S. Lupoff Anna Tambour Michael Kelly Cody Goodfellow John Langan Pearce Hansen Robin Spriggs Allyson Bird. Pulver, Sr
. His work has also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. An expatriate Alaskan, Barron currently resides in Upstate New York. About the Author Laird Barron is the author of several books, including?The Croning, Occultation, ?and?The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
"Adequate stories with HORRIBLE editing!" according to Kenneth Winland. This collection contains perfectly serviceable stories in homage to Chambers' collection of fiction based loosely around 'The King in Yellow'. Some are interesting, others are poor, most simply adequate. However, the editing is PURE amateur-hour - the introduction is poorly written and is a waste, and spelling and grammatical errors abound through the volume. COMPLETELY unacceptable in this day and age!Inferior to the Chaosium collections (themselves often problematic with regards to editing), this comes a. A Stunning Collection! In the 1938 Memorial Edition of Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow, Rupert Hughes suggests that if we remove Chambers from the literary landscape, "a great and brilliant life would be left without presentation; a swarm of men and women as typical of our time as any other groups, and living our life to the full, would be entirely omitted from the literary parade." Hughes assures us that the work of Robert Chambers will survive, "unless posterity shall be too deeply involved in its own problems to care f. This "King in Yellow" themed anthology hits the target This is one of the most significant multi-author anthologies of recent years. A wonderful, concentrated batch of intoxicating goodness.Every anthology includes pieces that don't work for all readers. In this case, the intelligent, provocative bullseyes greatly outnumber the few misses. A few highlights come from the expected places, such as Laird Barron and John Langan, who lately seem never to miss the mark. Both writers use the "King in Yellow" theme as an excuse to veer off the path of their usual focus
An expatriate Alaskan, Barron currently resides in Upstate New York. . Laird Barron is the author of several books, including?The Croning, Occultation, ?and?The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. His work has also appeared in many magazines and anthologies