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Collects short tales of the whimsical and strange, including "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach," "The Deed of the Deft-Footed Dragon," and "Dr. Bhumbo Singh."
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A New Collection of Long Out-of-Print Stories From One of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth CenturyAvram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.
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