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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Darrell Morris
It is not hard to imagine that you are a thirteen-year-old (almost fourteen) and you don't quite feel like you belong in your own family, with a somewhat goofy father who does magic tricks and disappears for long periods of time and might be a secret agent, not to mention a mother who might be a white witch, and a sister is actually normal but doesn't look the slightest bit like you. Then it gets worse when your family suddenly moves into a massive pile of a house deep in the woods in the middle of nowhere, and that house seems to be alive. It is more than a house. It is also a centuries-old, sleeping dragon that settled into the shape of a house as it slept. But now it is waking up, and you find you have a strange affinity to it. You, and no one else, can slide through the walls, swim in the bloodstream of the Dragon and share its consciousness. You acquire a mysterious teacher and a robotic companion from the planet Zarconax, and if life isn't getting strange enough already, something goes wrong and Ghastly Horrors and other malevolent monstrosities attack, well before you, or your parents, or even the house itself is prepared to do anything about it. Imagine that an all-encompassing darkness threatens everyone you ever cared about. Darrell Schweitzer's fourth novel might be considered a book for younger readers, or for readers who remember what it was like to be young. It is perhaps most comparable to the spooky narratives of John Bellairs. It is the sort of story, filled with striking imagery and bizarre incidents, a mixture of whimsy and genuine fright. The author's other novels include The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess, and The Mask of the Sorcerer. He has published hundreds of short stories. His fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award three times and once for the Shirley Jackson Award. He is an expert on H.P. Lovecraft and a former editor of the legendary Weird Tales magazine.
It is not hard to imagine that you are a thirteen-year-old (almost fourteen) and you don't quite feel like you belong in your own family, with a somewhat goofy father who does magic tricks and disappears for long periods of time and might be a secret agent, not to mention a mother who might be a white witch, and a sister is actually normal but doesn't look the slightest bit like you. Then it gets worse when your family suddenly moves into a massive pile of a house deep in the woods in the middle of nowhere, and that house seems to be alive. It is more than a house. It is also a centuries-old, sleeping dragon that settled into the shape of a house as it slept. But now it is waking up, and you find you have a strange affinity to it.You, and no one else, can slide through the walls, swim in the bloodstream of the Dragon and share its consciousness. You acquire a mysterious teacher and a robotic companion from the planet Zarconax, and if life isn't getting strange enough already, something goes wrong and Ghastly Horrors and other malevolent monstrosities attack, well before you, or your parents, or even the house itself is prepared to do anything about it. Imagine that an all-encompassing darkness threatens everyone you ever cared about.Darrell Schweitzer's fourth novel might be considered a book for younger readers, or for readers who remember what it was like to be young. It is perhaps most comparable to the spooky narratives of John Bellairs. It is the sort of story, filled with striking imagery and bizarre incidents, a mixture of whimsy and genuine fright.
Speaking of the Fantastic IV
Darrell Schweitzer; Allen Steele; Larry Niven
Wildside Press
2018
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Darrell Schweitzer interviews: Vernor Vinge, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Fillippo, Tanith Lee, Patricia Mckillip, Robert Silverberg, Allen Steele, John Clute, Elizabeth Hand, Maurice Broaddus, James P. Blaylock, Theodora Goss, Ben Bova, Richard A. Lupoff, Jay Lake, William Tenn (Philip Klass), Kim Stanley Robinson, Stanley Schmidt, and Larry Niven
The dead come from the sea, at night. They merely arrive and are discovered in the morning on the wharves, lying in great heaps. It has been the immemorial custom for people to take them into their homes, to find places for them, to pattern their increasingly cluttered lives around the growing accumulation of corpses. No one knows why, although it is the irresistible decree of the Unseen Government that the order of things must be preserved, at all costs. Old and young must participate, and carry away the dead, on bicycles, in carts, on their backs if need be. It has always been so. It always will be so.This isn't Hell, or an Afterlife, just a place, a fogshrouded, traditionstifled town without a name, where the dead are accommodated at the expense of the living, where the established way of life has become a grotesque absurdity, and a few brave or foolish or deviant souls struggle to find some meaning, and perhaps unravel the mystery of the dead.On the knife-edge of horror and dark comedy, like an improbable collaboration between Franz Kafka and Clive Barker, this book is a brilliant departure, even for the author of The Mask of the Sorceror.
The dead come from the sea, at night. They merely arrive and are discovered in the morning on the wharves, lying in great heaps. It has been the immemorial custom for people to take them into their homes, to find places for them, to pattern their increasingly cluttered lives around the growing accumulation of corpses. No one knows why, although it is the irresistible decree of the Unseen Government that the order of things must be preserved, at all costs. Old and young must participate, and carry away the dead, on bicycles, in carts, on their backs if need be. It has always been so. It always will be so.This isn't Hell, or an Afterlife, just a place, a fog-shrouded, tradition-stifled town without a name, where the dead are accommodated at the expense of the living, where the established way of life has become a grotesque absurdity, and a few brave or foolish or deviant souls struggle to find some meaning, and perhaps unravel the mystery of the dead.On the knife-edge of horror and dark comedy, like an improbable collaboration between Franz Kafka and Clive Barker, this book is a brilliant departure, even for the author of The Mask of the Sorcerer.
The 47th issue of Weirdbook magazine presents another mindbending excurion to the far reaches of terror and the imagination. Here and fantasy and horror stories spanning time and space, by some of the best authors currently practicing. This issue contains: THERAPOSA, by Jessica S J Brown THE DRAGONS OF THE NIGHT, by Darrell Schweitzer IT STARTS NOW, by Lorenzo Crescentini UNDERHEAD, by Charles Wilkinson BYE, BYE, CUBBY, by Franklyn Searight DIMENSIONS OF SCALE, by John R. Fultz A DEAD MAN'S TALE, by Adrian Cole RETURN TO SENDER: ARMSTRONG-9, by Samson Stormcrow Hayes BUTTERFLIES AND MOONBEAMS, by Kenneth Bykerk HEX ON THE BEACH, by Bryce Beattie FERAL, by Joe Arcara SIGYN HANTA AND BRONWYN DULCEA SPERANZA, by Patrick S. Baker EGO URN, by Eddie D. Moore SWEET HONEY IN THE BONES, by Matt Thompson NIGHT SHIFT, by Cynthia Ward THE HORROR FROM THE STARS, by Steve Dilks BELLICO AND THE HUSKS OF THE "HEAVENSENT", by Richard Toogood DON'T OPEN YOUR EYES, by Taylor Grant THE IRON LAW, by David C. Smith
Speaking of the Fantastic V
Darrell Schweitzer; George R R Martin; Samuel R Delany
WILDSIDE PRESS
2024
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" This] novel has immense power in its climax," said The Encyclopedia of Fantasy about Darrell Schweitzer's 1982 novel, THE SHATTERED GODDESS. Now, at last, here's the companion volume to that work, a cycle of eleven stories set "in the time of the death of the Goddess." This is an Earth of the far future, when the planet has declined into chaos, and darkness looms at the end of human history. Here you'll meet...a dadar, a wizard's shadow attempting to become a man; two sorcerers grotesquely transformed by their fratricidal hatred; a musician who becomes the lord of death; a boy-priest consumed by divine visions; and a witch who loves a god, among many others. Here's strangeness, wonder, and terror in the tradition of Clark Ashton Smith's Xothique or Jack Vance's The Dying Earth. Schweitzer is a master fantasist, whom anthologist Mike Ashley once called "today's supreme stylist." Great fantasy reading, now collected into book form for the first time
The Emperor of the Ancient Word and Other Fantastic Stories
Darrell Schweitzer
WILDSIDE PRESS
2024
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If many of the inefficiencies in the trucking industry were corrected, we would pay a little less for almost everything we buy - because everything we buy comes at least part of the way by trucks. Shippers and receivers are guilty of causing much of the additional costs when they force drivers and trucks to sit idle while waiting to be loaded or unloaded. And the trucking companies make promises to drivers that they fail to keep, resulting in huge unnecessary expenses in high driver turnover, recruiting and training. The situation is further aggravated by the lack of pragmatic government regulations. This book represents a crusade by an author who spent 13 years driving coast-to-coast for six different trucking companies, after spending three decades as a newspaper writer and editor.
Horror Heroes
Darrell Albert; Darrin Albert; Travis Hiltz
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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Life's Lessons From A Candy Machine
Darrell Maloney
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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Perspectives: Heartwarming Tales of Simpler Times
Darrell Maloney
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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