All the short stories of John Collier are now collected in two volumes, Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1 and Fancies and Goodnights Vol 2. Vol 1 won the International Fantasy Award in 1951 His fantastic ability to mix satire with though provoking 'what ifs' is clearly seen in this compilation of thirty-two short stories entitled, Fancies and Goodnights. He pulls the reader into a world of fantasy, make believe, and even 'Hell'. As the stories unfold, the surreal and bizarre become almost possi...

All the short stories of John Collier are now collected in two volumes, Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1 and Fancies and Goodnights Vol 2. Playful and wickedly mischievous, John Collier's short stories will reappear in your memory, to make you smile or laugh or sigh, long after the title and author are forgotten. Talking gorillas posing as writers, hairy fiends dressed as parsons, angels and devils invading the human realm, tricks and turns, a murder committed with chocolates, an unforgettable...

Wilkinson is a professor of mathematics who feels that the abstract beauty of science must be founded on objective truth. In fact, he could imagine no ecstasy so exalted as the contemplation of a perfect balance only to be achieved after presiding inscrutably over a multitude of numbers and making lofty calculations. A dry old stick, to be sure. Therefore, when  Professor Wilkinson is flummoxed by the results of a perfect experiment, he decides to test his theory himself and, ...

“What Milton had that Collier hasn't is a sense of sin, and the overwhelming power and beauty of divine order. What Collier has that Milton hadn't is a sense of humor and a delight in the variety of chaos.” (Time 1973)British-born author and screenplay writer, John Collier, retells Milton's Paradise Lost with his incomparable flare for imagery and a vision of the story as it might be seen on film. Although his script reads like a book, we can picture it all – satan flying through s...

Los irónicos y provocativos relatos de John Collier poseen una agudeza inusual, una perspectiva curiosa e implicaciones aterradoras, a la vez que suponen uno de los pináculos de la literatura extraña. Con su amplio catálogo de personajes, que van desde flores comehombres a demonios insatisfechos y oficinistas suburbanos, los fascinantes cuentos de Collier exploran la lógica implacable de la locura y revelan un paisaje surreal cuya inestable superficie oculta una profunda estela de ...

Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend. ~ShakespeareWilloughby Corbo, our hero, is born the illegitimate son of an irresponsible and irascible nobleman, Lord Ollebeare, who has a nose like a double strawberry as well as “six Norman names, a ruined house, a wild park, and one large and barren farm.” With hardly a backward glance, Ollebeare dumps his unwanted wee newborn on the doorstep of his brother an...

This story became a best seller and established John Collier as a brilliant writer. In the story, Mr. Fatigay is a schoolmaster in the heart of Africa. His best, and most attentive student is a chimp by the name, Emily. She has a desire to learn and better herself through knowledge. Unbeknownst to Fatigay, Emily, while spending every day in his classroom, not only learns to read, but also falls in love with her teacher. When Alfred Fatigay returns to his native home of London, hopefully to...

" C'est élégant et rédigé avec un sérieux qui renforce le burlesque. Un classique. " Le Figaro.Vers 1920, l'honorable professeur Alfred Fatigay quitte le Congo pour retrouver sa ville natale de Londres. Il est accompagné d'Émilie, chimpanzé femelle au QI prodigieux et à la sensibilité hors du commun qui, plus que son animal de compagnie, est sa confidente. Secrètement amoureuse du professeur, elle supporte mal de le voir subir les rebuffades de sa fiancée,...

Cynisch, gruwelijk, triest, hard, misdadig: verzin maar een genre en ze komt in dit rijtje verhalen van beroemde schrijvers voor: Dit was Willi's dag, De bekentenis, Nellthu, De vakantieganger, Kolonel Starbottle, De prins, Het meisje dat geld verkocht, Het ovale portret, Kat in het nauw, De gunst, Het vrouwenprobleem, Bruggen oversteken, Verschrikkelijk, Doorgestoken kaart, Correspondentievriendje, Met kerst weer thuis, Meezweten met Dover, De vredesparels, Tamanj, Het behekste poppenhuis...

Una selección de relatos de horror que muestra lo más oscuro del mundo vegetal. Una antología que reúne a nombres como Roald Dahl, Eudora Welty o H.P. Lovecraft.Orquídeas sanguinarias, bosques enteros que se rebelan contra quienes los masacraron, setas tan bellas como venenosas, robles majestuosos que se convierten en la reencarnación del hombre de la casa, maravillosas enredaderas que reviven espantosos fantasmas del pasado, máquinas rudimentarias que permiten reg...

Classic text-and-picture record includes over 100 lithographs and drawings of dances, fiestas, processions, chants and daily life among Zuni, Navajo, Apache, other tribes.

Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the popular and scholarly perceptions of Native Americans, but this is a false expression of a complex and constantly changing reality. When viewed from the Native perspectives, our concepts of urbani...