Quentin S. Crisp,Mark Samuels
Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in burgundy wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with head and tailbands. ,300 copies. ,(Out of print).,Contents: ,'Foreword','The Mermaid','Far-Off Things','Cousin X','A Lake','The Two-Timer','The Tattooist','Ageless','Autumn Colours'.,In these eight immaculately realised strange stories, Quentin S. Crisp delves deep into the decadence of contemporary life. The fresh originality of the tales and their settings: an English country garden in â€˜Cousin Xâ€™; contemporary Japan in â€˜A Lakeâ€™: is matched by the elegance of the writing. They are unified, perhaps, by a yearning for the achingly perfect, ecstatic moment. As Mark Samuels points out in his Foreword, Crispâ€™s fiction is â€˜. . . too multi-layered, too individual, to be labelled. One can spot influences here and there, a dash of this and a sprinkling of that, but the end result is much greater than the sum of its parts.â€™
Short Stories,Fantasy,Weird Fiction,Horror,Fiction,Literature
Morbid Tales