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: The Dispossessed, The Elementals, Flicker, To Walk the Night, Young Goodman Brown, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Satan Wants Me, The Iguana, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition, The Kraken Wakes
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0061054887 |
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly...
| Author | Michael McDowell |
| ISBN | 0380783606 |
On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching sand. Two of the houses at Beldame are still used. The third house, filling with sand, is empty...except for the vicious horror which is shaping nightmares from the nothingness that hangs in the dank, fetid...
From the golden age of art movies and underground cinema to X-rated porn, splatter films, and midnight movies, this breathtaking thriller is a tour de force of cinematic fact and fantasy, full of metaphysical mysteries that will haunt the dreams of every moviegoer. Jonathan Gates could not have anticipated...
| Author | William Sloane |
| ISBN | 0345286030 |
Years ago I read William Sloane’s second (and last) novel, The Edge of Running Water. I had copies of both of his novels, but I read the second one first because I liked its title better than the first’s, To Walk the Night. Or maybe I read it first because its pages weren’t as old and yellow and brittle....
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 1557423628 |
Such a wonderfully (and eerily) subversive story of a man who sees what lies behind the virtuous facade. A classic "dark romance," it's got all the hallmarks of another kind of classic: that of the "hero cycle" (to use Joseph Campbell's famous phrase), where the hero has to leave society to gain wisdom,...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
| Author | James Hogg |
| ISBN | 0192835904 |
Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing...
| Author | Robert Irwin |
| ISBN | 0747551650 |
Satan Wants Me is fundamentally risqué, murky and trippy black comedy of black magic…
After queuing for about twenty minutes, I secured my own copy of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. The sleeve gave me a start, for there, standing towards the left in the Beatles’ fantasy entourage,...
| Author | Anna Maria Ortese |
| ISBN | 0914232959 |
In this magical novel a Milanese count stumbles upon a desolate community of lost noblemen on an uncharted island off the coast of Portugal. When he discovers, to his utter amazement, that their ill-treated servant is in fact a maiden iguana, and then proceeds to fall in love with her, the story of Aleardo,...
| Author | Paula Guran |
| ISBN | 1607012812 |
This incomparable annual compilation of the best short fiction and novellas features an unmatched variety of the quietly weird, the merely eerie, high fantasy, modern Lovecraftian horror, nightmarish near-future scenarios, the darkly humorous, the supernatural, and the monstrously mundane...
| Author | John Wyndham |
| ISBN | 0140010750 |
I will probably always nod to Wyndham's Day of the Triffids as a crowning piece of SF, but The Kraken Wakes takes on a very similar tone, albeit very different problems.
The two both have a heavy focus on science and rationality in the face of unfathomable problems. Triffids had mass blindness...
| Author | Angela Carter |
| ISBN | 0140234640 |
After the apocalypse the world is neatly divided.
Rational civilization rests with the Professors in their steel and concrete villages; marauding tribes of Barbarians roam the surrounding jungles; mutilated Out People inhabit the burnt scars of cities.
But Marianne, a Professor's...
«En el bosque, bajo los cerezos en flor», puede y debe considerarse, sin duda alguna, una obra maestra del fantástico más grotesco, inquietante y poético.»
Un despiadado ladrón se ha instalado en las montañas y aterroriza a los viajeros que osan cruzar el solitario paso de Suzuka,...
| Author | Edmund Gordon |
| ISBN | 0701187557 |
Angela Carter is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and beguiling writers of the last century. Her work stands out for its bawdiness and linguistic zest, its hospitality to the fantastic and the absurd, and its extraordinary inventiveness and range. Her life was as modern and as unconventional...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0553383043 |
”The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.”
The Folio Society edition is superbly illustrated by David Lupton.
The boy is born on the island of Gont in the archipelago of Earthsea. This is a world infused with magic. Not everyone can control this magic, but those...
The Left Hand of Darkness
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can choose—and change—their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0689845367 |
Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.
When young Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and nameless Powers of the Earth, everything is taken away - home, family, possessions, even her name. For she is now Arha, the Eaten One, guardian of the...
Snakes are easy. It’s people that I don’t know how to charm.
this tor short is equal parts beautiful and disturbing.
it also comes with a warning: Please be warned that this story deals with difficult content and themes, including child abuse, incest, and rape.
and also...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 1416509631 |
Years ago, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan—she, an isolated young priestess; he, a powerful wizard. Now she is a farmer's widow, having chosen for herself the simple pleasures of an ordinary life. And he is a broken old man, mourning the powers lost to him through no choice...
| Author | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| ISBN | 0441011241 |
Tales from Earth Sea (The Earthsea Cycle, #5), Ursula K. Le Guin
Tales from Earthsea is a collection of fantasy stories and essays by American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. It accompanies five novels (1968 to 2001) set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea.
"The Finder"....
