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| AUTHOR: | Tanith Lee |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Overlook Hardcover |
| ISBN: | 087951440X |
| TYPE: | English Science Fiction And Fantasy, Fiction, Fiction - Fantasy, Fantasy, Fantasy - General, Fiction / Literary, Literary, Fantastic fiction, Fantasy fiction, Horror fiction, Paradys (Imaginary place) |
| MEDIA: | Hardcover |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Not Free SF Reader The Book of the Dead is basically a horror short story collection. There is nothing particularly memorable about any of them, although the story about the girl getting the ability to go owl-woman isn't bad. Vampire owls though? That is a little on the whacky side. <
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Truth Is NOT Stranger Than Fiction
Imagine Anne Rice in her prime writing the best dark fantasy ever done, and you might get some idea of what Tanith Lee accomplished in these two books that take place in her mythical French city of Paradys. Short stories and two novellas set over the course of many centuries in the same darkly dangerous and strange French city, Paradys, take one along on a ride that begins where the Twilight Zone ends and proceeds straight out the other side of disbelief and non-reality.
A very good book, but not her best.
This was the first book of Tanith Lee I read. Immediately, I was striken by the magic of the language and the plot. The eight stories in this volume are excellent examples of Tanith Lee's talent. All the stories are situated in a forgotten French city somewhere in the 17th-century. Led by a mysterious guide, an anonymous I-person visits the ancient graveyard of Paradys. The guide points out eight graves and tells the story that goes with them. The result is a collection of thrilling stories about a vagina with teeth; a quest for a secret valley; a voodoo-dripping horror story; a typical Lee vampire; a plague-woman; the real dream of a girl; a woman called Morcara; and a female artist who posesses a glass dagger. Although the erotic element in these stories is nihil, they each have that undefinable taste of the unreal that Tanith Lee can summon so well. As always, she manages to make me shiver, just by describing the city. There are, however, things I really miss. The extra dimension behind the thrill, for example. After I had read more of her novels, I re-read 'The Book of the Dead' and I was expecting that extra dimension, but was a bit disappointed. This is not Tanith Lee at her best, but it is a very good try.