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The Apes of Wrath
Author: | Richard Klaw |
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Tachyon Publications, 2013 |
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Synopsis
In the Rue Morgue, the jungles of Tarzan, the fables of Aesop, and outer space, the apes in these seventeen fantastic tales boldly go where humans dare not. Including a foreword from Rupert Wyatt, the director of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this provocative anthology delves into our fascination with and fear of our simian cousins.
"Evil Robot Monkey" introduces a disgruntled chimp implanted with a chip that makes him cleverer than both his cohort and humans alike. In "Murders in the Rue Morgue," a murder mystery unravels with the discovery of a hair that does not appear quite human. Merging steampunk with slapstick, "The Ape-Box Affair" has a not-so-ordinary orangutan landing on Earth in a spherical flying ship--where he is promptly mistaken for an alien. King Kong sets a terrible example with booze and Barbie dolls in "Godzilla's 12-Step Program."
If you've ever wondered what makes humans different from apes, soon you'll be asking yourself, is it even less than we think?
Table of Contents:
- Foreword - essay by Rupert Wyatt
- A Brief Introduction - essay
- The Ape-Box Affair [Langdon St. Ives] (1978) - novelette by James P. Blaylock
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Chevalier Dupin] (1841) - novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
- Evil Robot Monkey (2008) - short story by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Apes in Literature - essay by Jess Nevins
- Tarzan's First Love [Tarzan] (1916) - short story by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Rachel in Love (1987) - novelette by Pat Murphy
- Her Furry Face (1983) - short story by Leigh Kennedy
- The Four-Color Ape - essay by Scott A. Cupp
- Red Shadows [Solomon Kane] (1928) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
- The Cult of the White Ape (1933) - novelette by Hugh B. Cave
- The Maze of Maâl Dweb [Maal Dweb] (1933) - short fiction by Clark Ashton Smith
- Quidquid Volueris (1837) - short fiction by Gustave Flaubert (trans. of Quidquid volueris)
- Gorilla of Your Dreams: A Brief History of Simian Cinema - essay
- After King Kong Fell [Wold Newton] (1973) - short story by Philip José Farmer
- Deviation from a Theme (1976) - short story by Steven Utley
- Godzilla's Twelve-Step Program (1994) - short story by Joe R. Lansdale
- The Men in the Monkey Suit - essay by Mark Finn
- Dr. Hudson's Secret Gorilla (1977) - short story by Howard Waldrop
- The Apes and the Two Travelers [Aesop's Fables] (569) - short fiction by Aesop (trans. of The King of the Apes)
- A Report to an Academy [Ein Bericht für eine Akademie] (1917) - short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Ein Bericht für eine Akademie)
- Faded Roses (1989) - short story by Karen Joy Fowler
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