The Dark Tales

Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1902309251 ISBN 13: 9781902309255

Verlag: Sarob Press, 2002

Check individual seller's Condition Notes for edition (slipcased 52-copy edition or regular 225-copy edition). Wales: Sarob Press, 2002. These tales are all set in the same sinister otherworld: "Hode of the High Place" "The One Great Achievement of Padrine Luil" "Wrath of the Ebon Knights" "Winged Llama of the Mesa" "The Revelations and Pursuits of Timith Son of Timith" "A Rain of Spiders" "The Black Desert of Gomba Mo" "The Ravaging in the Dell" "Meadow Silence" "The Assassin's Foe" "The Entity from Before Creation" "The Piebald Man" and "Nitimandrey and the Cabinetmaker's Vision.Released in limited edition from the Welsh specialty publisher Sarob Press, a collection of gloomy, appalling, downbeat and Decadent high fantasy tales inspired by Clark Ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, William Morris, and broadly by the English Decadence. Wraparound dustwrapper by Lara Bandilla captures the darkness of the stories, and appears to have been inspired by Steve Fabian. There is an Afterword about how or why such relentlessly cruel and possibly sick stories came to be written.