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Partial Eclipse and Other Stories
| Author: | Graham Joyce |
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Subterranean Press, 2003 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
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Synopsis
The stories and novellas gathered here range from wartime England to Leningrad under the siege, from the coal mines of Coventry to the hallucinatory beauty of the Greek islands. Some of the stories ("Gap Sickness," "The Careperson") utilize overtly science fictional premises. Some ("Under the Pylon," "Black Dust") recall the overall ambience of The Tooth Fairy, Graham's unforgettable portrait of adolescent rites of passage. Others, such as "Candia" and "Xenos Beach," are accounts of magical, erotic, and dangerous encounters in exotic ports of call. And some of the stories transcend all traditional categories. One of these is the unforgettable novella, "Leningrad Nights," a story of suffering and survival in a frozen, surreal city ruled by "the blind justice of the Whistling Shell."
Partial Eclipse is a book of dark, disturbing, sometimes beautiful dreams. It is also, as the extraordinary title story tells us, a book about the primal importance of dreaming. For admirers of Graham Joyce's novels, this is an indispensable volume. For those who have yet to discover his work, it is a varied, elegant introduction to one of the singular dreamers of our time.
Table of Contents:
- 7 - Introduction (Partial Eclipse and Other Stories) - essay by Bill Sheehan
- 13 - Partial Eclipse - (2000) - short story
- 29 - Black Dust - (2001) - short story
- 45 - The Apprentice - (1993) - novelette
- 79 - Candia - (2000) - short story
- 95 - The Careperson - (1992) - novelette
- 119 - Gap-Sickness - (1993) - short story
- 131 - Xenos Beach - (2000) - short story
- 149 - Pinkland - (1998) - short story
- 163 - Leningrad Nights - (1999) - novella
- 213 - Under the Pylon - (1992) - short story
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