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Stefan Grabinski (Author)
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  • Paperback: 153 pages
  • Publisher: Dedalus Ltd (26 July 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1903517419
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903517413
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Translated by Miroslaw Lipinski. The greatest author of fantastic fiction in the Polish language is Stefan Grabinski (1877-1936), the master of the short story form. Grabinski's stories, which he termed psychofantasies, are explorations of the extreme in human behaviour, where the macabre and the bizarre combine to send a chill down the reader's spine. When it comes to the erotic, few authors can match Grabinski's depiction of seething sexual frenzy. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
By Murray
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Far from just being a "Polish Poe", Grabinski occupies a space of his own somewhere between the European Decadents and more modern weird writers like Kafka and Aickman. His writing makes a knowing use of horror tropes, and his stories often move through several quick twists in succession, being closer to surrealism or nightmare than traditional horror.

In the best story in the volume, "The Glance", Grabinski refines the fear of the unknown into its purest form, as the protagonist tries to banish all doors, corners and mirrors from his life so as never to be surprised by anything unpleasant, then ends up being just as fearful of the terrible solipsism a totally predictable life engenders. The bizarre "Szamota's Mistress" is more sexually (and psychologically) explicit than anything that could have been published in England at the time; but it is the ideas behind Grabinski's stories that I really like - the debate on how we perceive time in "Saturnin Sektor", and the many ideas sparked off by trains: the train as symbol of freedom from the self-constraints and fears of everyday life in "The Compartment", the train as embodiment of abstract, pure motion in "The Motion Demon", the train as unrestrained madness in "The Wandering Train".

Grabinski is an original, taking an intelligent approach to the psychologically charged weirdness that comes from his own inner dark domain, and showing insight rare in the genre considering the age in which he wrote.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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For everyone interested in fantasy in its purest state this is a gemm. This anthology mixes the many themes that cross the polish author's short stories. The pure horror, the ghost story, the surrealist (before its time), really erotic images, all of this with just enough hints of a certain modernism or post-modern that rends the stories an extra quality.

It's a must and will certainly fill a gap on fantasy literature.

The train stories are just amazing - This guy wrote one collection of stories just around trains he worked with the modern concept of speed as a moto for the future society which would be obliterated by it... I wonder if he didn't just get it right...

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Great stuff 5 Mar 2010
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Great book. Stories remind me of Thomas Ligotti, and from me that'a a compliment, as Ligotti is one of the true original voices in genre writing today
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