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- Strange Tales, Volume Three
- edited by Rosalie
Parker
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- The
strange tale is alive and well and flourishing at the
beginning of the twenty-first century. These seventeen
brand new stories, representing the very best of
contemporary weirdness, range from the mythical terror of
Adam Golaski's 'The Great Blind God Passing Through Us',
to John Gaskin's assured ghost story, 'Party Talk', in
which an elderly lady tells her disturbing tale.
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- Circus
folk take in an abandoned girl with unforeseen
consequences in Nina Allen's Machenian 'The Lammas
Worm,'. In 'Countess Otho', Reggie Oliver's actor
protagonist finds success after he inherits the
manuscript of an unproduced play: but what is the precise
cause, and the price, of his new found fame? The curator
of a dream museum has an interesting appointment in Mark
Valentine's 'Morpheus House', while in 'Her Father's
Daughter', Simon Strantzas thoroughly subverts the
familiar horror trope of a young woman seeking help at an
isolated farmhouse.
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- These
and more await the reader of Strange Tales
III.
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- Containing:
- 'The
Lammas Worm' - Nina Allan
- 'Morpheus House' - Mark
Valentine
- 'Sanctuary Run' -Daniel
Mills
- 'A Woman
of the Party' - Elizabeth Brown
- 'The
Good, Light People' - Gary McMahon
- 'Countess Otho' - Reggie
Oliver
- 'Melting' - A.J. McIntosh
- 'It's
White and It Follows Me' - Tina Rath
- 'Yet No
Greater Love of Promise' - Joel Knight
- 'Divan
Method' - Eric Stener Carlson
- 'Party
Talk' - John Gaskin
- 'The
Other Box' - Gerard Houarner
- 'The
Great Blind God Passed Through Us' - Adam
Golaski
- 'Her
Father's Daughter' - Simon Strantzas
- 'Sister,
Sister' - Angela Slatter
- 'A Taste
of Casu Marzu' - David Rix
- 'The
Solipsist' - Philbampus
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- Strange Tales III is a sewn hardback
book of 288 pages with silk ribbon marker, head and
tailbands, and d/w. Limited to 500 copies.
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- Cover
artwork by Stephen J Clark of The Singing Garden
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- ISBN
978-1-905784-18-9.
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- Price:
£30/$50 inc. p&p.
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- See also
the original Strange
Tales volume.
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- See also
Strange Tales,
Volume Two.
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- Special offer: buy
all three volumes together for just
£70/$125.
- Reviews:
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- "ST III is
an anthology for any connoisseur of the
weird, the uncanny and the fascinating. Like
all Tartarus volumes, it is produced to a
very high standard, complete with finely odd
cover art by Stephen Clark." -
Supernatural
Tales 17
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- "... the quality throughout is so
high that I would recommend this to any fans
of weird tales or dark
fiction." - Tales
from the Black Abyss.
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- "...a wonderful
collection, and perhaps just as importantly,
the publication of the Strange Tales series
is an important act in the effort to more
firmly establish strange fiction in the mind
of the modern reader." -
The
Speculative Fiction Junkie
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- "another excellent collection of
stories apt to delight not only the
afficionados of horror and dark fantasy, but
any lover of good fiction."
Mario
Guslandi at Bookgeeks
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