![]() ![]() ![]() This would be interesting reading alongside some of the stories from Mark Samuels’ The Man Who Collected Machen.Įleanor strides through her town with a sense of ownership and sure knowledge of what is right and appropriate. It is also a city and its art seeps into the surrounding world, a cold art, an invasion of sorts, affecting the narrator and his love as the snows come. ![]() “Sorrow: A feeling of grief or melancholy,” the narrator writes. Professor Berkowitz’s ability to identify and appreciate the oddness of the perspective in the short, small body of work by a long gone writer earns him a chance to see the numinous, to experience the fantastic. “Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold”: Sleeping Beauty retold, merging in the history and myth of Great Britain, and contrasting the beauty of myth against the drabness of quotidian life. And yet there is darkness here because in these tales death is a constant companion. Though she sometimes leans toward the former, of the sixteen stories only the story quoted above, “Letters from Budapest,” “Conrad” and maybe “A Statement in the Case” would fit comfortably in most horror anthologies. ![]() With this collection Theodora Goss has written with grace, style and wit modern fairy tales that are neither as grim as Grimms’ nor as relentlessly optimistic and cheery as Disney’s. ![]()
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