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.

Холмса вызывают в дом известного ученого-востоковеда, и тот рассказывает невероятную историю, которую доктор Ватсон вынужден скрывать долгие годы.

(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 shape of a house as it slept. But now it is waking up, and you find you have a strange affinity to it. You, and no one else, can slide through the walls, swim in the bloodstream of the Dragon and share its consciousness. You acquire a mysterious teacher and a robotic companion from the planet Zarconax, and if life isn’t getting strange enough already, something goes wrong and Ghastly Horrors and other malevolent monstrosities attack, well before you, or your parents, or even the house itself is prepared to do anything about it. Imagine that an all-encompassing darkness threatens everyone you ever cared about. Darrell Schweitzer’s fourth novel might be considered a book for younger readers, or for readers who remember what it was like to be young. It is perhaps most comparable to the spooky narratives of John Bellairs. It is the sort of story, filled with striking imagery and bizarre incidents, a mixture of whimsy and genuine fright. The author’s other novels include The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess, and The Mask of the Sorcerer. He has published hundreds of short stories. His fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award three times and once for the Shirley Jackson Award. He is an expert on H.P. Lovecraft and a former editor of the legendary Weird Tales magazine. &t;br/&t; “This is the house I should have grown up in! Schweitzer’s fantasy is cleanly written, original, and great fun to read.” –
Michael Swanwick, author of The Iron Dragon’s Daughter. “Schweitzer is a story-teller, by whose smoky fire one may sit spell-bound.” –
Tanith Lee, author of The Birthgrave, Tales from the Flat Earth, the Blood Opera sequence, etc.

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