In the Palace of Repose - Softcover

Phillips, Holly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189481570X ISBN 13: 9781894815703

Publisher: Wildside Pr, 2005

Synopsis

'The essential Holly Phillips story begins like this: In a world that felt too little, there lived a girl who saw too much.'-Sean Stewart In the Palace of Repose is a collection of nine such stories, ranging from the delightfully fantastic 'In the Palace of Repose,' to the delicately horrific 'One of the Hungry Ones,' to the hauntingly literary 'The Other Grace.' Here indeed are young women, and young men, who have seen too much, and who have been abandoned to wrestle alone with the strange, the wonderful, the terrifying. Some triumph, some tragically fail. Most struggle on beyond the boundaries of their stories, carrying their wonders and horrors into their lives, into their worlds-worlds, and lives, startlingly like our own.

About this title

From the Publisher

Holly Phillips has won the 2006 Sunburst Award for her collection of short stories In the Palace of Repose.

Holly Phillips's collection In the Palace of Repose has made the final ballot for the World Fantasy Awards in the category of best single-author collection category, and her story "The Other Grace" (from the collection) is a finalist in the short story category.

Holly Phillips was among the finalists for the 2006 Crawford Award, given by the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. Holly was nominated for her collection In the Palace of Repose.

From Booklist

*Starred Review* Horror-movie buffs may love monsters and mayhem, but many of them also laud the 1940s B movies produced by Val Lewton and famed for suggesting horrors rather than showing them. Canadian newcomer Phillips one-ups Lewton by refraining to characterize what menaces her protagonists as evil or necessarily threatening. The king locked away for five centuries in "In the Palace of Repose" may be too much for all society to handle, but when he emerges, the three men who assume his keeping seem up to the challenge. The spirit of the female conqueror interred in a barrow in "A Woman's Bones" is dreaded by the native peoples who know her legends, but the interpreter for the archaeologists digging at the barrow becomes prepared to welcome the violent wraith's release. The girl art thief in "Pen and Ink" seems threatened more by the mysterious curator who spurs her on than by her quest for her vanished father literally in his paintings. Often Phillips' protagonists' desire to bring magic back into the world is greater than any fear of supernatural forces. The heroine of Phillips' least fantastic story, "Summer Ice," succeeds at working magic, and her reward, like her accomplishment, is altogether natural, though wonderful indeed. Phillips writes dark fantasy mostly with the aura of heroic fantasy, aiming to awe far more than to frighten--and succeeding, awesomely. Ray Olson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Wildside Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 189481570X
• ISBN 13: 9781894815703
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224