| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781844165957 | | Publisher: Solaris | | Publish Date: 1/6/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 208013407 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.25H x 6L x 1T | | Pages: 376 |
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| | | Compiled by a multi-award winning editor, this collection commemorates the second centenary of Edgar Allan Poe''s birth. It features Poe-inspired tales by some of the finest talents in the fieldan all-star lineup featuring several Hugo, Edgar, Tiptree, and British Fantasy Award winners
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Edited by Ellen Datlow (responsible for the excellent annual collections THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR), this compendium brings together new pieces of fiction by a cast of great writers influenced by American master Edgar Allan Poe. Contributors include: Lucius Shepard, Pat Cadigan, Delia Sherman, John Langan, Kim Newman, Gregory Frost, and 13 others.
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 | Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow (stories inspired by Edgar Allan Poe) - Book Review By: Richard Marcus - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 1/4/2009 7:20 AM | | In recent years a new type of anthology has started to appear, especially in the fantasy genre, where authors are asked by an editor, or editors, to write a story according to a theme. These have included retellings of classic fairy tales, new takes on the hero myth, and other variations on that idea. Since this format has become popular, the name of one editor has become synonymous with the best of these collections. I don't know if Ellen Datlow was the first person to put together one of these anthologies, but her name as editor on one of these collections has become a guarantee that you're going to be reading a great collection of short fiction. It doesn't matter whether you've heard of any of the writers or not, because Datlow knows exactly which authors to approach for the type of story she has in mind for a particular collection and the results are always worth reading....read the full review |
| Praise| "Datlow...has assembled an all-star lineup and chosen inventive stories whose quality are certainly an extension of Poe's tradition of exccelent weird fiction." 11/03/2008 |
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