Grails: Visitations of the Night - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451453042 ISBN 13: 9780451453044

Publisher: Roc Trade, 1994

Synopsis

The works of twenty-five fantasy writers, including Tanith Lee, Karl Edward Wagner, and Robert Weinberg, focus on quests for the elusive chalice

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About the Author

Martin H. Greenberg���was honored in 1995 by the Mystery Writers of America with the Ellery Queen Award for lifetime achievement in mystery editing. He is also the recipient of two Anthony awards. Mystery Scene magazine called him "the best mystery anthologist since Ellery Queen." He has compiled more than 1,000 anthologies and���is the president of TEKNO books.���He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Reviews

Companion to, and continuation of, the first and fairly mediocre Grails (p. 102). Again, the inapposite subtitle may be disregarded. The 29 stories featured here concern grails as both objects and metaphors whose themes and ideas run from traditional Arthurian scenarios through alternate worlds to contemporary global settings--and don't forget the traditional sprinkling of famous names. Plot devices include ironic reversals (Tanith Lee), a dragon's hoard, dogs, werewolves and the Franco-Prussian War (Karl Edward Wagner), Florida, the Ottoman Empire, the Wild West, Nazis, Southeast Asia (S.P. Somtow), England, inheritances, the Amazon, Canada, detectives and horrors in Holland (Jack C. Haldeman II), dime stores, evil grails, death row, the Wandering Jew, female knights (George Alec Effinger), blood and miracles (Pat Cadigan), New Age detectives, Merlin, Elvis in heaven, and migrant farmworkers. One Grails is plenty, two is an overdose. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Tanith Lee's bittersweet tale of a knight's lifelong quest ("Exalted Hearts") to Nancy Holder's story of a modern "grail" seeker ("To Leave If You Can"), the 29 stories in this companion volume to Grails: Quests of the Dawn (LJ 2/15/94) bring new interpretations to one of the world's most enduring legends. Including contributions by Pat Cadigan, Lawrence Shimel, Lois Tilton, and many other fantasy and sf authors, this collection belongs in most libraries.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Roc Trade
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451453042
• ISBN 13: 9780451453044
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Gilliam Richard, Greenberg Martin H., Kramer Edward E.