Лучшие книги Дарелла Швайцера

Эта книга о магии. Подлинной магии, вошедшей в плоть и кровь человека, который меньше всего на свете хотел бы быть колдуном. Леденящие кровь превращения, заклинания и битвы становятся вехами, отмечающими Путь Познания, посвящения в волшебство. Швайцер - уникальный фантаст, сумевший доказать, что жанр фэнтези, вопреки расхожему мнению, далеко не исчерпан, и его `Маска чародея` по праву считается одной из лучших книг последнего десятилетия.

Чокнутый Люк Брэдли с первого класса был грозой всех окрестных мальчишек, и главный герой, Дэвид, боялся его не меньше прочих. Однажды Люк потащил его вместе с братом в старый форт — поглазеть на мертвого мальчика в картонной коробке (ведь это круто!). И тогда поводов для страха у Дэвида прибавилось, ведь мальчик оказался не совсем мертв...... но и живым его назвать ни у кого язык не повернулся бы.

В Городе Тростника, стоящем на берегу Великой реки, жила семья волшебника Ваштема, ставшего чернокнижником. Занятия Ваштема черной магией обрушили страшные беды на его семью. Для своих чародейских изысканий Ваштем убил свою жену, а дочь забрал с собой в царство мертвых. Сын Ваштема, молодой Секенре, отправился в царство мертвых, чтобы спасти свою сестру.

(Приключения Грисов Патерсонов на острове Уффа)

(приписывается лорду Дансени)

IMAGINE… It is not hard to imagine that you are a thirteen-year-old (almost fourteen) and you don’t quite feel like you belong in your own family, with a somewhat goofy father who does magic tricks and disappears for long periods of time and might be a secret agent, not to mention a mother who might be a white witch, and a sister is actually normal but doesn't look the slightest bit like you. Then it gets worse when your family suddenly moves into a massive pile of a house deep in the woods in the middle of nowhere, and that house seems to be alive. It is more than a house. It is also a centuries-old, sleeping dragon that settled into the…

Darrell Schweitzer's third collection of essays and reviews, a successor to the well-received «Windows of the Imagination» and «The Fantastic Horizon,» is a balanced mixture of scholarship and entertainment, ranging over the entire spectrum of imaginative literature, from the oldest novel in the world (1st century B.C.) to classic (and not-so-classic) pulp fiction, to childhood reading, to examinations of the works of such masters as H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, Robert Bloch, Stanley Weinbaum, John W. Campbell, and Thomas M. Disch. In between we encounter such surprising topics as a proposal for an H.P. Lovecraft biopic («The Whole Wide Lovecraft»), the eccentricities of William Beckford (the author of Vathek), and even a report from Blobfest, an annual street fair devoted to the famous 1958 cult film, at which Schweitzer, as a member of the press, was allowed to touch the original Blob. Many of these pieces have been published in the prestigious «The New York Review of Science Fiction.» "Schweitzer writes in an informative style that’s knowledgeable, witty, and high accessible. This is the finest kind of criticism – it makes you want to read more, both of the critic's own prose and that of the writers he’s discussing. Highly recommended!" – Robert Reginald. Darrell Schweitzer is a novelist, short-story, writer and critic, a former editor of the legendary «Weird Tales» magazine, and a four-time World Fantasy Award finalist and one-time winner. His previous book of essays, «The Fantastic Horizon,» was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award.

Fantasy novel by the World Fantasy Award-winning editor and author. «Few writers can genguinely touch the quality of nightmare…the fear that formless and almost banal stems from the sleeping mind. John Bellairs did it with THE FACE IN THE FROST… James Blaylock can do it. And now there is also THE SHATTERED GODDESS.» –Mary Gentle

This volume assembles 25 tales by Darrell Schweitzer, modern and alternate-world fantasy and horror tales in the "Weird Tales" vein. Included in this volume are some of his very finest works, including "Pennies from Hell," "Peeling It Off," "Kind Yvorian's Wager," and many more! Complete contents:

TRANSIENTS
A LANTERN MAKER OF AI HANLO
THE STORY OF A DADAR
REFUGEES FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY
THE SORCERER EVORAGDOU
THE MYSTERIES OF THE FACELESS KING
KING YVORIAN’S WAGER
THE SPIRIT OF THE BACK STAIRS
THE OUTSIDE MAN
SAVAGES
ON THE LAST NIGHT OF THE FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD
VANDIBAR NASHA IN THE COLLEGE OF SHADOWS
ONE OF THE SECRET MASTERS
RUNNING TO CAMELOT
KVETCHULA
KVETCHULA'S DAUGHTER
HOW IT ENDED
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DEAD WOMAN IN THE WORLD
THE EATER OF HOURS
FIGHTING THE ZEPPELIN GANG
THE MESSENGER
THE LAST HERETIC
THE WITCH OF THE WORLD'S END
HOWLING IN THE DARK
PEELING IT OFF

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Seventeen fantasies by one of the field's most prolific short story authors, including tales of…mad gods, specters returning from the beyond, inexplicable enigmas from outer space, a romantic and surreal interlude of the legendary madman, Tom O'Bedlam, time travel to allow an irate professor to settle the Shakespearean authorship controversy, and the King Arthur legend–plus genuinely frightening horror, including the celebrated story, «The Dead Kid.» Mike Ashley calls the author «today's supreme stylist» of fantasy, and Tanith Lee says that «Schweitzer is a story-teller, by whose smoky fire one may sit spellbound.» First-rate stories of the fantastic by a World Fantasy Award winner!

"[This] novel has immense power in its climax," said The Encyclopedia of Fantasy about Darrell Schweitzer's 1982 novel, THE SHATTERED GODDESS. Now, at last, here's the companion volume to that work, a cycle of eleven stories set "in the time of the death of the Goddess." This is an Earth of the far future, when the planet has declined into chaos, and darkness looms at the end of human history. Here you'll meet...a dadar, a wizard's shadow attempting to become a man; two sorcerers grotesquely transformed by their fratricidal hatred; a musician who becomes the lord of death; a boy-priest consumed by divine visions; and a witch who loves a god, among many others. Here's strangeness, wonder, and terror in the tradition of Clark Ashton Smith's Xothique or Jack Vance's The Dying Earth. Schweitzer is a master fantasist, whom anthologist Mike Ashley once called "today's supreme stylist." Great fantasy reading, now collected into book form for the first time!

A definitive look at the life and work of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, by a leading scholar of the fantasy and horror field.