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The Smell of Telescopes
| Author: | Rhys Hughes |
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Tartarus Press, 2000 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Welsh writer Rhys Hughes regards this as his favourite book, and with good reason. It is one of the funniest and most intelligent books from the lighter side of macabre writing I have ever seen. It clamours with a cast of pirates, floppy-wristed welsh bards, explorers and inventors, imps, squonks, moving public houses, M R Jamesian revenants, M R Jamesian punctuation, blueberry pies, trousers, noses, clocks, carrots... I cant list them all here, there isn't room. Like all the best books, this quirky and surreal collection is hard to classify, but it lies in that region where the macabre and eerie worlds of classic horror and fantasy become a basis for something else - for a dark and original sense of humour filled with unexpected cross-references, homages, satires and black comedy. What makes this collection remarkable is not just the delightfully murky and skewed tales themselves, but the complex and ingenious way they all lock together and interrelate. I was going to say 'tessellate' but if this is a tessellation then it is filled with impossible-sided polygons, non-Euclidean three-dimensional geometry, unexpurgated curves and cracks from which blueberry-scented steam emerges with a screaming hiss. But what is without doubt is that The Smell of Telescopes is a magnificent book and a cornerstone of the rather oddly shaped corner of literature that it occupies.
Table of Contents:
- The Banker of Ingolstadt - (2000)
- Ten Grim Bottles - (1996)
- Spermaceti Whiskers - (2000)
- The Blue Dwarf - (1999)
- The Purloined Liver - (1997)
- The Squonk Laughed - (2000)
- Telegram Ma'am - (2000)
- Depressurised Ghost Story - (2000)
- Thanatology Spleen - (2000)
- The Tell-Tale Nose - (2000)
- A Girl Like a Doric Column - (1998)
- The Orange Goat - (2000)
- Nothing More Common - (1999)
- Muscovado Lashes - (2000)
- A Person Not in the Story - (2000)
- Bridge Over Troubled Blood - (1999)
- Burke and Rabbit - (2000)
- The Yellow Imp - (2000)
- Lanolin Brows - (2000)
- The Haunted Womb - (2000)
- Mister Humphrey's Clock's Inheritance - (2000)
- There Was a Ghoul Dwelt by a Mosque - (2000)
- The Purple Pastor - (2000)
- The Hush of Falling Houses - (2000)
- The Sickness of Satan - (2000)
- Omophagia Ankles - (2000)
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