โ Anderson, Poul
๐ Fiction
๐
2010
๐ Wonder Publishing Group
๐ English
โ 196 KB
๐ 2 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Orpheus on the Underground and Other Stories: SSC
โ Scribed by Hughes, Rhys
- Publisher
- The Tartarus Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1905784716
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Orpheus on the Underground is the new Rhys Hughes collection from Tartarus, containing fifteen previously unpublished stories (โThe Concise Picaresque Adventures of the Wanderlust Bridgeโ first appeared in Strange Tales II). Ranging from the ghostly, through horror to the entirely fantastic, Hughesโ marvellously inventive tales steer the reader through the bizarre labyrinths of his unique talent for the strange.
In โThe Upper Reachesโ, two pilots discover a world beyond their mission, while the eponymous hero of โOrpheus on the Undergroundโ attempts to shoe-horn classical myth into the transport system of a modern metropolis. โBehind Every Ghostโ takes a conventional aphorism to its illogical limit, while โThe Phantom Festivalโ explores the history of music on various levels. In the โThe Quixote Candidateโ, a would-be film director is persuaded to give what may turn out to be an overly comprehensive interview.
In the years since the publication of his first collection (Worming the Harpy, Tartarus Press, 1995), Rhys Hughes has become one of the รฉminence grises of the strange tale. He wears his reputation lightly, and it is the sheer fun and individuality of Orpheus on the Underground that make the stories so memorable
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Work Table : Preliminary
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