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The fifteen stories of Darkscapes Anne Sylvie Salzman s new collection in English superbly translated from the French by William Charlton explore the horror in life the beauty in strangeness Despite the diverse settings of Salzman s stories their inhabitants share an affinity with the unusual the dislocated and the other Hikers in the Scottish Highlands a working girl in Tokyo boy scouts on a country adventure drifting students prowling beasts makers of glass eyes inhabit the farthest reaches of the imagination be it the dying gleam of a lingering dusk cannibalism in a Parisian park or the tremor of a snipe s feathers Salzman Charlton s prose precise and subtle leads readers willingly into the heart of darkness Contains Lost Girls Child of Evil Stars Fox into Lady The Old Towpath The Opening Meannanaich Crucifixions Passing Forms Under the Lighthouse Pan s Children Brunel s Invention Shioge The Story of Margaret What the Eye Remembers The Hand that Sees Wildlife Hilda Lamont Feral Bibliography Acknowledgements Anne Sylvie Salzman aka Anne Sylvie Homassel is a Paris based writer and translator She co directs Le Visage vert a literary magazine and small press devoted to supernatural fiction She is the author of Sommeil Jos Corti Au bord d un lent fleuve noir Jo lle Losfeld and Lamont Le Visage vert Amongst other novels and collections she translated Max Beerbohm s Seven Men Lord Dunsany s The Sword of Welleran Ernest Bramah s Max Carrados and Arthur Machen s Three Impostors and some of W. Darkscapesf free download S Graham s poetry feats she is inanely proud of She is currently working on a science fiction novel Darkscapes is a sewn hardback book of 193 pages with decorated boards silk ribbon marker head and tailbands and d w ISBN 978 1 905784 57 8Limited to 300 copies DarkscapesI m surprised this isn t getting love Perhaps the affordable kindle version will help Some of these pieces are short vignettes or almost fairy tales My favorite stories here have odd surreal breaks in the narrative and open endings that invite interpretation The Opening captures so well a kind of creeping unease and social tension that I also admire in Aickman and the early Ramsey Campbell English A style of melancholy only achieved through careful provisioning of words Recommended English Questi racconti non mi hanno convinta per nulla A parte un paio che mi sono piaciuti seppur comunque non da morire non ho trovato nulla che me li facesse davvero piacere Oltre al fatto che diversi non li ho proprio capiti: Book darkscapes pdf Penso siano troppo distanti dal weird che piace a me mancano infatti dell elemento fantastico e misterioso. Darkscapes kindle reader Non so molti di questi racconti non li definirei nemmeno weird.Un peccato English