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Laddar... Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (Modern Library) (urspr publ 1944; utgåvan 1994)av Phyllis Cerf Wagner (Redaktör), Herbert Wise (Redaktör)
VerkdetaljerGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural av Herbert Alvin Wise (Editor) (1944)
   Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.  poingu | Feb 22, 2020 |  My favorite collection of stories ever. I've read this to many times to count. This is the book that sits on my night stand. I reach for it after I've read a handful of crappy horror stories. Or after I've written a handful of crappy horror stories. (  )2  imaginationzombie | Sep 28, 2014 | I've had this forever. I should read it or something.  beabatllori | Apr 2, 2013 | A very wide-ranging selection --everything from Fauikner to Lovecraft. Mostly British and American nineteenth century or early 20th century, with a few French. Divided into 2 parts, Tales of Terror and Tales of the Supernatural, but many in the supernatural section are equally terrifying. The distinction seems to be the first group are not supernatural (e.g. A Rose for Emily) (  ) antiquary | Jun 17, 2011 | This is the single finest collection of tales of the supernatural I have ever encountered. Wall to wall classics of their kind. ( ) tungsten_peerts | Jan 11, 2011 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Ingår i förlagsserienModern Library Giant (G72) Innehåller
When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in the anthology are such distinguished spell weavers as Edgar Allen Poe ("The Black Cat"), Wilkie Collins ("A Terribly Strange Bed"), Henry James ("Sir Edmund Orme"), Guy de Maupassant ("Was It a Dream?"), O. Henry ("The Furnished Room"), Rudyard Kipling ("They"), and H.G. Wells ("Pollock and the Porroh Man"). Included as well are such modern masters as Algernon Blackwood ("Ancient Sorceries"), Walter de la Mare ("Out of the Deep"), E.M. Forster ("The Celestial Omnibus"), Isak Dinesen ("The Sailor-Boys Tale"), H.P. Lovecraft ("The Dunwich Horror"), Dorothy L. Sayers ("Suspicion"), and Ernest Hemingway ("The Killers"). "There is not a story in this collection that does not have the breath of life, achieve the full suspension of disbelief that is so particularly important in [this] type of fiction," wrote the Saturday Review. With an introduction and notes by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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For the most part the stories still thrilled me. Even so I could not get over how many of them used the framing device of a bunch of white Englishmen at the club who are just lighting their cigars and settling down to hear one man's hair-raising yarn...or something very close to it. A few are culturally offensive, relying on witch-doctor tropes and colonial points of view that jar, but mostly their frame of reference is stiff-upper-lippish, rather than unreadably inappropriate. I still love them all albeit nostalgically at times rather than for their currency. (