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Library of America Fantastic Tales Collection: American Fantastic Tales Vol. 2 (LOA #197) : Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s until Now by Peter Straub (2009, Hardcover)

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The second volume of Peter Straub's pathbreaking two-volume anthology American Fantastic Tales picks up the story in 1940 and provides persuasive evidence that the decades since then have seen an extraordinary flowering. While continuing to explore the classic themes of horror and fantasy, successive generations of writers--including Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, Stephen King, Steven Millhauser, and Thomas Ligotti--have opened up the field to new subjects, new styles, and daringly fresh expansions of the genre's emotional and philosophical underpinnings. For many of these writers, the fantastic is simply the best available tool for describing the dislocations and newly hatched terrors of the modern era, from the nightmarish post-apocalyptic savagery of Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" to proliferating identities set deliriously adrift in Tim Powers' "Pat Moore." "At its core," writes editor Peter Straub, "the fantastic is a way of seeing." In place of gothic trappings, the post-war masters of the fantastic often substitute an air of apparent normality. The surfaces of American life--department store displays in John Collier's "Evening Primrose," tar-paper roofs seen from an el train in Fritz Leiber's "Smoke Ghost," the balcony of a dilapidated movie theater in Tennessee Williams' "The Mysteries of the Joy Rio"--become invested with haunting presences. The sphere of family life is transformed, in Davis Grubb's "Where the Woodbine Twineth" or Richard Matheson's "Prey," into an arena of eerie menace. Dramas of madness, malevolent temptation, and vampiristic appropriation play themselves out against the backdrop of modern urban life in John Cheever's "Torch Song" and Shirley Jackson's unforgettable "The Daemon Lover." Nearly half the stories collected in this volume were published in the last two decades, including work by Michael Chabon, M. Rickert, Brian Evenson, Kelly Link, and Benjamin Percy: writers for whom traditional genre boundaries have ceased to exist, and who have brought the fantastic into the mainstream of contemporary writing. The forty-two stories in this second volume of American Fantastic Tales provide an irresistible journey into the phantasmagoric underside of the American imagination. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1598530488
ISBN-13
9781598530483
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72408358

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Book Title
American Fantastic Tales Vol. 2 (Loa #197) : Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s until Now
Number of Pages
750 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, Horror, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
Peter Straub
Book Series
Library of America Fantastic Tales Collection
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.2 in

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Dewey Edition
22
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Series Volume Number
2
Age Range
18-Up
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
813.0873808054
Grade to
Up
Lc Classification Number
Ps648.H6
Copyright Date
2009

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