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The Exigent Shadow

The Exigent Shadow

Mendes, Catulle
Stableford, Brian

Paperback

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ISBN10: 1612278493
ISBN13: 9781612278490
Publisher: Hollywood Comics
Published: Mar 31 2019
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The present volume is one of a set of three collections assembling a substantial fraction of the short fantastic fiction of Catulle Mendès (1841-1909). It assembles 23 tales of the fantastique dealing with anomalous events and altered states of consciousness that might or might not have supernatural causes.

Other writers such as Marcel Schwob have written stories of the same kind, but Mendès' work in that vein is particularly interesting, not merely by virtue of its profusion and its uncommon imaginative range, but also because of its macabre humor and its straightforward disturbing aspects.

That combination of effects makes the present collection unique with in the field of weird fiction, and quite fascinating.

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