Night Visions 6 - Hardcover

Wilson, F. Paul; Tepper, Sheri S.; Garton, Ray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0913165352 ISBN 13: 9780913165355

Publisher: Dark Harvest Books, 1988

Synopsis

Book by Wilson, F. Paul, Tepper, Sheri S., Garton, Ray

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The latest in this series of horror anthologies is uneven but, overall, rewarding. Three writers are showcased. F. Paul Wilson, best known for his novels The Keep and The Touch , contributes three minor short stories. "Feelings" is a predictable piece about a cynical attorney cursed with a hypersensitive empathic sense; "Faces" is touching, but the payoff is telegraphed; "Tenants" is a clever tale of an old recluse and his leprechauns. Ray Garton, whose horror novels Live Girls and Crucifax Autumn were crude but effective pulp fiction, takes a step up with the novelette "Monsters," that proffers an unusual theory on lycanthropy. The prize of the book is science fiction writer Sheri S. Tepper's "The Gardener," a beautifully written short novel about a man determined not to permit intimacy into his life who is undone when the wrong young woman believes his words of love. His gradual disintegration and inability to ask for help are wrenchingly and perfectly delineated.
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From Library Journal:

A landscape architect finds his world slowly but inexorably drained of color, scent, texture, and vision after he undertakes a commission to design a "gray garden" for a wealthy recluse in Sherri Tepper's novella The Gardener , the standout piece in this collection, which also features three eerie tales by F. Paul Wilson and a novella exploring the extremes of religious persecution by Ray Garton. Intended as a showcase for modern writers of dark fantasy, this latest volume of Night Visions is recommended for most libraries.JC
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dark Harvest Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0913165352
• ISBN 13: 9780913165355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312