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The Hunger and Other Stories
| Alternate Title: | Shadow Play |
| Author: | Charles Beaumont |
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Valancourt Books, 2013 Panther Books, Ltd., 1964 Bantam Books, 1959 G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1957 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Weird (Horror) |
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Synopsis
When The Hunger and Other Stories (1957) appeared, it heralded the arrival of Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) as an important and highly original new voice in American fiction.
Although he is best known today for his scripts for television and film, including several classic episodes of The Twilight Zone, Beaumont is being rediscovered as a master of weird tales, and this, his first published collection, contains some of his best. Ranging in tone from the chilling Gothic horror of "Miss Gentilbelle," where an insane mother dresses her son up as a girl and slaughters his pets, to deliciously dark humor in tales like "Open House" and "The Infernal Bouillabaisse," where murderers' plans go disastrously awry, these seventeen stories demonstrate Beaumont's remarkable talent and versatility.
This new edition of The Hunger and Other Stories, the first in more than fifty years, includes a new introduction by Dr. Bernice M. Murphy, who argues for reevaluation of Beaumont alongside the other greats of the genre, including Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, and Richard Matheson.
Contents:
- A Point of Honor - (1955) - short story
- Black Country - (1954) - short story
- Fair Lady - (1957) - short story
- Free Dirt - (1955) - short story
- Last Night in the Rain - (1956) - short story
- Miss Gentilbelle - (1957) - short story
- Nursery Rhyme - (1957) - short story
- Open House - (1957) - short story
- Tears of the Madonna - (1957) - short story
- The Crooked Man - (1955) - short story
- The Customers - (1957) - short story
- The Dark Music - (1956) - short story
- The Hunger - (1955) - short story
- The Infernal Bouillabaisse - (1957) - short story
- The Murderers - (1955) - short story
- The Train - (1957) - short story
- The Vanishing American - (1955) - short story
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