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Weirdmonger (Paperback)

by D.F. Lewis (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Prime,US (1 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 189481584X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1894815840
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,294,963 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A True Original, 31 May 2005
By Tamar Yellin (West Yorkshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
A sampling of 67 stories from the more than 1300 published by an author legendary in the small press both for his prolificacy and originality. Weirdness abounds in these "synchronised shards of random truth and fiction." One thing I can guarantee is that you will never have read any writer quite like D. F. Lewis before. While many of the stories will leave you puzzling their meaning and others require a strong stomach, there are gems (such as 'Rosewolf,' 'Small Fry' and 'Uncle Absolutely') which rise to the level of pure poetry in their ability to capture the essence of life's strangeness and the evanescence of the passing moment. The language is challenging, and at its best, brilliant. The soundest advice would be to switch off your rational mind and simply absorb the tumbling dreamlike (or nightmare) images.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Wizard of Weird, 13 Aug 2005
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This 'retrospective showcase' anthology consists of 67 short stories (with 3 never published before) by the British writer of Weird Fiction and 'Nemonymous' originator, D.F Lewis. The tales (ordered in alphabetical order) weave a strange narrative through a dreamlike texture of unsettling vision and stunning wordplay, which may leave the reader frequently bewildered but nonetheless satisfied that stories, with their own peculiar internal logic, make sense. Most of the stories are a few pages long, and as Ramsey Campbell has commented, 'some of his stories are best read as prose poems'-- 'Blasphemy Fitzworth' an example that Campbell gives.
'Darkness, cruelty and despair' are some of the themes found in the stories as highlighted by Campbell in a 1993 introduction to 'The Best of D.F Lewis'. And the genre trappings of horror, science fiction and fantasy are all made peculiarly bizarre and unique with a recurrent twisted humour. If the reader longs for something more conventional, this can be found too in the 'The Season of Lost Will' and 'Welsh Popper' (the latter tale reprinted in the 'Year's Best Horror Stories XXI, 1993); each of these two stories prove that Lewis is a master of the short form if the reader had any doubts.
If there are criticisms these are not directed at D.F. Lewis's fiction of which I have the utmost respect and delight for. Perhaps it was a lost opportunity by not including a long introduction, scholarly or otherwise to this collection, as does the 'The Best of D.F. Lewis' (TAL, 1993) with its interesting introduction by Ramsey Campbell. Admittedly I found it somewhat a slog reading, obsessively, all 67 stories over a week; a 'showcase' of twenty or thirty of the best here mapped out by theme may have sufficed considering that Lewis is now archiving his written work on the Web. But these are minor criticisms to a wonderful, if rather over-fattened collection.
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