American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now - ed. Peter Straub

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American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
Edited by Peter Straub

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The second volume of Peter Straub’s pathbreaking two-volume anthology American Fantastic Tales picks up the story in 1940 and provides persuasive evidence that the decades since then have seen an extraordinary flowering. While continuing to explore the classic themes of horror and fantasy, successive generations of writers—including Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Charles Beaumont, Stephen King, Steven Millhauser, and Thomas Ligotti—have opened up the field to new subjects, new styles, and daringly fresh expansions of the genre’s emotional and philosophical underpinnings. For many of these writers, the fantastic is simply the best available tool for describing the dislocations and newly hatched terrors of the modern era, from the nightmarish post-apocalyptic savagery of Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” to proliferating identities set deliriously adrift in Tim Powers’ “Pat Moore.”
“At its core,” writes editor Peter Straub, “the fantastic is a way of seeing.” In place of gothic trappings, the post-war masters of the fantastic often substitute an air of apparent normality. The surfaces of American life—department store displays in John Collier’s “Evening Primrose,” tar-paper roofs seen from an el train in Fritz Leiber’s “Smoke Ghost,” the balcony of a dilapidated movie theater in Tennessee Williams’ “The Mysteries of the Joy Rio”—become invested with haunting presences. The sphere of family life is transformed, in Davis Grubb’s “Where the Woodbine Twineth” or Richard Matheson’s “Prey,” into an arena of eerie menace. Dramas of madness, malevolent temptation, and vampiristic appropriation play themselves out against the backdrop of modern urban life in John Cheever’s “Torch Song” and Shirley Jackson’s unforgettable “The Daemon Lover.”
Nearly half the stories collected in this volume were published in the last two decades, including work by Michael Chabon, M. Rickert, Brian Evenson, Kelly Link, and Benjamin Percy: writers for whom traditional genre boundaries have ceased to exist, and who have brought the fantastic into the mainstream of contemporary writing.
The forty-two stories in this second volume of American Fantastic Tales provide an irresistible journey into the phantasmagoric underside of the American imagination.

Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction by Peter Straub
02) Evening Primrose by John Collier
03) Smoke Ghost by Fritz Leiber
04) The Mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams
05) The Refugee by Jane Rice
06) Mr. Lupescu by Anthony Boucher
07) Miriam by Truman Capote
08) Midnight by Jack Snow
09) Torch Song by John Cheever
10) The Daemon Lover by Shirley Jackson
11) The Circular Valley by Paul Bowles
12) I’m Scared by Jack Finney
13) The Vane Sisters by Vladimir Nabokov
14) The April Witch by Ray Bradbury
15) Black Country by Charles Beaumont
16) Trace by Jerome Bixby
17) Where the Woodbine Twineth by Davis Grubb
18) Nightmare by Donald Wandrei
19) I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
20) Prey by Richard Matheson
21) The Events at Poroth Farm by T. E. D. Klein
22) Hanka by Isaac Bashevis Singer
23) Linnaeus Forgets by Fred Chappell
24) Novelty by John Crowley
25) Mr. Fiddlehead by Jonathan Carroll
26) Family by Joyce Carol Oates
27) The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti
28) A Short Guide to the City by Peter Straub
29) The General Who Is Dead by Jeff VanderMeer
30) That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French by Stephen King
31) Sea Oak by George Saunders
32) The Long Hall on the Top Floor by Caitlín R. Kiernan
33) Nocturne by Thomas Tessier
34) The God of Dark Laughter by Michael Chabon
35) Pop Art by Joe Hill
36) Pansu by Poppy Z. Brite
37) Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser
38) The Chambered Fruit by M. Rickert
39) The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson
40) Stone Animals by Kelly Link
41) Pat Moore by Tim Powers
42) The Little Stranger by Gene Wolfe
43) Dial Tone by Benjamin Percy
44) Biographical Notes
45) Note on the Texts