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Superhuman Tales

Superhuman Tales

Michelet, Victor-Emile
Stableford, Brian

Paperback

Fantasy

ISBN10: 1612277950
ISBN13: 9781612277950
Publisher: Hollywood Comics
Published: Sep 1 2018
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The stories collected in Victor-Emile Michelet's Superhuman Tales (1900) reveal his determined and constant ambition to push various envelopes in horror, fantasy and supernatural, which gives them a unique, particular edge.
Michelet makes considerable efforts to distance his work from the conventional formulae. His tales draw energy and charm from the earnest esotericism of their central motifs, and poignantly exploit the author's fascination with death. Filled with the ironic spirit of the contes cruels, which dominated upmarket short fiction during the fin-de-siècle, they are visionary fantasies with a peculiar obliquity that is the hallmark of his work. Michelet took his fantasy and symbolism seriously, especially when their extrapolation led him by convoluted paths to the strange conclusions displayed in this collection.

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