A Fabulous, Formless Darkness

The Dark Descent Vol. 3

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mass market paperback, 585 pages

English language

Published January 1992 by Tor.

ISBN:
978-0-8125-0967-0
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OCLC Number:
25144965

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Contains: A fabulous formless darkness. Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- Seven American nights / Gene Wolfe -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- Crouch End / Stephen King -- Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- Clara Militch / Ivan Turgenev -- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The beautiful stranger / Shirley Jackson -- The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- The willows / Algernon Blackwood -- The Asian shore / Thomas M. Disch -- The hospice / Robert Aickman -- A little something for us tempunauts / Philip K. Dick.

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reviewed A Fabulous, Formless Darkness by David G. Hartwell

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Five stars for a few stories in particular: Crouch End by Stephen King, The Beautiful Stranger by Shirley Jackson, The Hospice by Robert Aikman, and A Little Something for us Tempunauts by Philip K. Dick. The other stories are good, these just stood out to me as the best of the lot.

Subjects

  • Fiction / Horror
  • Horror