- Worming the
Harpy
- and other Bitter Pills
- by Rhys
Hughes
- Afterword by E.F. Bleiler
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- Imagine (if you dare) a
whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have
something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with gaudy
colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional
unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if
the most magical thing of all. - Ted Klein, author of The Ceremonies
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- The tales contained within Worming the Harpy and other Bitter Pills
are set in a surreal world of nightmares all too
closely identifiable with real life. If The Cabinet of Dr Caligari was retouched by
Ralph Steadman, with The Rolling Stones 'Sympathy for the Devil' as a
soundtrack, you would have only the slightest inkling of the
scintillating and horrific world conjured by Rhys Hughes. For too long
out of print, we are pleased to make this collection available once
again, now in paperback.
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- As E.F. Bleiler states in his Afterword: "What do I
like about Rhys Hughes's work? Fun. Hughes sees and precipitates in
words the latent humour in almost anything."
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- Contents: "Cat o' Nine Tales", "Worming the Harpy",
"The Falling Star", "Quasimodulus", "The Good News Grimoire", "The
Forest Chapel Bell", "Flintlock Jaw", "Velocity Oranges", "A Carpet
Seldom Found", "The Chimney", "One Man's Meat", "The Man Who Mistook His
Wife's Hat for the Mad Hatter's Wife", "Cello I Love You", "What To Do
When the Devil Comes Round For Tea", "Arquebus for Harlequin", "Éclair
de Lune", "Grinding the Goblin", "Afterword" by E.F. Bleiler .
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- Worming the Harpy
is a paperback of 231 pages, and as an ebook
- ISBN 978-1-905784-31-8
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- Price £14.95/$25 inc. p&p.
- Reviews:
“The stories are essentially literature in its
purest form - wonderfully rumbustuous, humorous, word-magical fantasies,
liberally peppered with honest-to-goodness horror. They remind me of
Lord Dunsany, John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Jack Vance, involving
fabulous traditions of surrealism, fairy stories and piquant wit . . .
Rhys Hughes’ book is one that I had dreamed of reading but never thought
I’d be so lucky ever to do so in real life." - Deathrealm
"Rhys Hughes is a very good writer . . . a fabulist
whose sense of the absurd is peerless." - Grotesque
"The overall tone is one of disturbing,
occasionally shocking surrealism . . . fans and others who are looking
for something significantly offbeat in supernatural fiction will be
delighted with this, his first book."- All
Hallows
- Also available:
- Hughes, Rhys:
- Stories From A Lost
Anthology
Page updated 6th December 2011
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