Attack of the jazz giants and other stories / Gregory Frost ; with a foreword by Karen Joy Fowler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frost, Gregory.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fantasy fiction, American.

Genre:

Fantasy fiction, American.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, IL : Golden Gryphon Press, [2005]

Summary:

The New York Times Book Review calls Gregory Frost "merciless and artful." You'll see why in his collection of masterful conjurations.

The Nebula, Hugo, Tiptree, International Horror Guild, and World Fantasy Award finalist takes you on a journey of wonders and nightmares. It's a midnight odyssey to a shadowland where vehicles feast on vagrants...where Poe's final days are revealed...where factory workers are exploited by an apparition of the Virgin Mary...and where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart pinwheels through the corridors of Time.

On this pilgrimage we discover the apocalyptic entity that hides in a Ukrainian village. We're taken to a crossroads where the Castle of Otranto bleeds into the Depression-Era South accompanied by the rollicking music of Kid Ory and Bix Beiderbecke. Frost's fourteen excursions include an account of the horror that dwells in Jack the Ripper's pocket watch, and features a brand new novella - a slam-bang interplanetary "Road" picture peppered with Hope & Crosby japery and more than a dash of Flash Gordon.

New York Times bestselling author Karen Joy Fowler provides the Foreword, and John Kessel (Nebula, Locus, Campbell, and Tiptree Award winning author) the Afterword. Notes by the author are included to take you behind the stories, each of them as compelling and lucid as a cracked-open dream. As added bonuses, each story also has one or more illustrations by award-winning artist Jason Van Hollander.

Contents:

The girlfriends of Dorian Gray

Madonna of the maquiladora

Collecting dust

The bus

A day in the life of Justin Argento Morrel

Divertimento

Attack of the jazz giants

Some things are better left

Lizaveta

In the sunken museum

Touring Jesusworld

The road to recovery

From hell again

How Meersh the bedeviler lost his toes.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1930846347

OCLC:

57000615

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