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David G. Hartwell The Dark Descent (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Dark Descent
- Publication Name
- The Dark Descent
- Title
- The Dark Descent
- Contributor
- David G. Hartwell (Edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0312862172
- EAN
- 9780312862176
- ISBN
- 9780312862176
- Publisher
- Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom&Co
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Horror
- Release Date
- 15/01/1997
- Release Year
- 1997
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 235mm
- Item Length
- 165mm
- Item Weight
- 1247g
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Features
- Revised
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Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. "A gigantic, superlatively edited historical overview of horror fiction." -- Chicago Sun-Times In The Dark Descent , hailed as one of the most important anthologies ever to examine horror fiction, editor David G. Hartwell traces the complex history of horror in literature back to the earliest short stories. The Dark Descen t showcases the finest of these ever written--from the time-honored classics of masters of the form.
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Publisher
Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom&Co
ISBN-10
0312862172
ISBN-13
9780312862176
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1570331
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dark Descent
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Horror
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Dimensions
Item Length
9.4in
Item Height
2.7in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
33.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
1
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Edition Number
2
Reviews
"A gigantic, superlatively edited historical overview of horror fiction."-- Chicago Sun-Times "For a sample of the current excellence and variety of horror, one could do no better."-- New York Newsday "An important work which belongs in every library."-- The West Coast Review of Books, "A gigantic, superlatively edited historical overview of horror fiction."--Chicago Sun-Times "For a sample of the current excellence and variety of horror, one could do no better."--New York Newsday "An important work which belongs in every library."--The West Coast Review of Books, "A gigantic, superlatively edited historical overview of horror fiction." -- Chicago Sun-Times "For a sample of the current excellence and variety of horror, one could do no better." -- New York Newsday "An important work which belongs in every library." -- The West Coast Review of Books
Table of Content
Introduction PART I: The Color of Evil "The Reach," by Stephen King "Evening Primrose," by John Collier "The Ash-Tree," by M. R. James "The New Mother," by Lucy Clifford "There's a Long, Long Trail a-Winding," by Russell Kirk "The Call of Cthulhu," by H. P. Lovecraft "The Summer People," by Shirley Jackson "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs," by Harlan Ellison "Young Goodman Brown," by Nathaniel Hawthorne "Mr. Justice Harbottle," by J. Sheridan Le Fanu "The Crowd," by Ray Bradbury "The Autopsy," by Michael Shea "John Charrington's Wedding," by E. Nesbit "Sticks," by Karl Edward Wagner "Larger Than Oneself," by Robert Aickman "Belsen Express," by Fritz Leiber "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper," by Robert Bloch "If Damon Comes," by Charles L. Grant "Vandy, Vandy," by Manly Wade Wellman PART II: The Medusa in the Shield "The Swords," by Robert Aickman "The Roaches," by Thomas M. Disch "Bright Segment," by Theodore Sturgeon "Dread," by Clive Barker "The Fall in the House of Usher," by Edgar Allen Poe "The Monkey," by Stephen King "Within the Walls of Tyre," by Michael Bishop "The Rats in the Walls," by H. P. Lovecraft "Schalken the Painter," by J. Sheridan Le Fanu "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman "A Rose for Emily," by William Faulkner "How Love Came to Professor Guildea," by Robert Hichens "Born of Man and Woman," by Richard Matheson "My Dear Emily," by Joanna Russ "You Can Go Now," by Dennis Etchison "Three Days," by Tanith Lee "Good Country People," by Flannery O' Connor "Mackintosh Willy," by Ramsey Campbell "The Jolly Corner," by Henry James PART III: A Fabulous Formless Darkness "Smoke Ghost," by Fritz Leiber "Seven American Nights," by Gene Wolfe "The Signal Man," by Charles Dickens "Crouch End," by Stephen King "Night-Side," by Joyce Carol Oates "Seaton's Aunt," by Walter de la Mare "Clara Militch," by Ivan Turgenev "The Repairer of Reputations," by Robert W. Chambers "The Beckoning Fair One," by Oliver Onions "What Was It?," by Fitz-James O'Brien "The Beautiful Stranger," by Shirley Jackson "The Damned Thing," by Ambrose Bierce "Afterward," by Edith Wharton "The Willows," by Algernon Blackwood "The Asian Shore," by Thomas M. Disch "The Hospice," by Robert Aickman "A Little Something for Us Tempunauts," by Philip K. Dick
Dewey Decimal
823.010816
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Trade
Series
Dark Descent Ser.
Dewey Edition
20
Number of Pages
1024 Pages
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