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Uncanny of Place: Cities, Streets, Shops, and Spaces in Classic Speculative Fiction
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781616465780
Publisher: Coachwhip Publications
Published: Feb 19 2024
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sometimes geography is no match for metaphysics. Uncanny of Place: Cities, Streets, Shops, and Spaces in Classic Speculative Fiction collects seventeen stories of magical shops, vanishing rooms, sentient streets, and other transitory or perplexing locations.
Stories include: The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe); Germelshausen (Friedrich Gerstäcker); Mysterious Disappearances (Charles Bierce); The Hall Bedroom (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman); The Magic Shop (H. G. Wells); Number 13 (M. R. James); A Somewhat Improbable Story (G. K. Chesterton); The Door in the Wall (H. G. Wells); The Madness of Andelsprutz (Lord Dunsany); Space (John Buchan); The Never-Ending Road (Anonymous); The Bureau d'Echange de Maux (Lord Dunsany); The Street (H. P. Lovecraft); The Blue City (Frank Owen); The Theater Upstairs (Manly Wade Wellman); The Street That Wasn't There (Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi); Tunnel Terror (Allison V. Harding)
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