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WINDOWS OF THE IMAGINATION - Essays on Fantastic Literature

WINDOWS OF THE IMAGINATION - Essays on Fantastic Literature Paperback - 1999

by Schweitzer, Darrell

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"These 29 essays on fantasy, skepticism, writing, and related topics--spanning nearly two decades--are filled with the insightful observations of a literary master. Schweitzer is one of the best critics in the field."--John Gregory Betancourt. (Criticism)

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Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Wildside Press, 1999. Book. Illus. by Dan Campbell;. Near Fine. Soft cover. Second Edition. 8vo. 208 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Dan Campbell. This essay collection contains: My Skeptical Self and Other Evasions of Autobiography: The Necessity of Skepticism; The Cost of Credulity; The Layercake of History; My Career as a Hack Writer. Writing Fantasy: The Lands That Clearly Pertain to Faery; Uttering the P-Word; Why Horror Fiction?; Intimate Horror; Horror Beyond New Jersey; The Limits of Craziness. H. P. Lovecraft and Others: H. P. Lovecraft: Still Eldritch After All These Years; About The Whisperer in Darkness; H. P. Lovecraft's Favorite Movie; M. R. James and H. P. Lovecraft: The Ghostly and the Cosmic; Richard Middleton: Beauty, Sadness and Terror; How Much of Dunsany s Worth Reading?; Count Dracula and His Adapters. Reviews: Philip K. Dick: Absurdist, Visionary; Kipling's Science Fiction; The Black Flame by Stanley G. Weinbaum; On Brian Aldiss's Barefoot in the Head; A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Le Gun; Lexicon Urthus by Michael Andre-Drussi; Prospero's Dracula; Cthulhu 2000 edited by James Turner; The Dragon Path: Collected Stories of Kenneth Morris. Loose Cannonfire: An Interview with Edgar Allan Poe; One Fine Day in the Stygian Haunts of Hell: Being the Lore and Legend of the Fabled Eye of Argon; and Creating Frivolous Literary Theories; followed by an index..
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  • Title WINDOWS OF THE IMAGINATION - Essays on Fantastic Literature
  • Author Schweitzer, Darrell
  • Illustrator Dan Campbell;
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 210
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wildside Press, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
  • Date 1999
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 223590
  • ISBN 9781880448601 / 1880448602
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.66 x 5.64 x 0.56 in (22.00 x 14.33 x 1.42 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.087

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