Moby Jack and Other Tall Tales

✍ Scribed by Kilworth, Garry

• Publisher: PS Publishing
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 197 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1848631480

✦ Synopsis

Moby Jack and Other Tall Tales is a collection of stories that span some 20 years. They cover a variety of themes and are more different, in style as well as content, than they are similar. As the author himself says, "Some writers follow a path of sameness in order to satisfy their readers' desire for familiarity. To me that's like going to same country for your holiday every year. It's not me. I like going somewhere different every time."

The tales range from Chinese fantasy ('Death of the Mocking Man') to science fiction ('Moby Jack'), to fantasy ('The Sculptor') to horror ('The Megowl') to ghost stories ('Hunter's Hall') -- but for the most part they're just plain odd and refuse to slot into any set category.

So, if you like weird stories, dark comedy and tales where characters get into impossible situations and only occasionally extract themselves, then you'll probably enjoy this volume

contents

The Sculptor Interzone No. 60, June 1992.

Black Drongo Omni Vol. 16 No. 8, May 1994.

Bonsai Tiger Spectrum SF 1 2000.

Attack of The Charlie Chaplins New Worlds, edited by David Garnett,

White Wolf Books 1997.

Cherub Heaven Sent, edited by Peter Crowther, DAW Books 1995.

The Council of Beasts Interzone No. 111, September 1996.

The Frog Chauffeur Silver Birch, Blood Moon, edited by Ellen Datlow

and Terri Windling, Avon Books 1999.

Hamelin, Nebraska Interzone No. 48, June 1991.

Hunters Hall: 1993 Mysterious Christmas Tales, Scholastic Books.

Somethings Wrong With The Sofa The Edge 1997.

Death Of The Mocking Man Interzone No. 147, December 1999.

Wayang Kulit Interzone No. 90, December 1994.

Inside The Walled City Walls of Fear, edited by Kathryn Cramer,

William Morrow 1990.

My Lady Lygia REM, Issue 2 1992.

Oracle Bones Touch Wood (Narrow Houses 2) edited by Peter Crowther, Little Brown 1993.

Paper Moon Omni Vol. 9 No. 4, January 1986.

Store Wars The Anthology of Fantasy and Supernatural, edited by Stephen Jones and David Sutton, Tiger Books 1994.

The Megowl Chilling Christmas Tales, Scholastic Books 1992.

The Silver Collar Blood Is Not Enough, edited by Ellen Datlow, William Morrow 1989.

Moby Jack The Edge 1997.

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