GRANTA 117: HORROR [Signed]

Auster, Paul [Author] DeLillo, Don [Author] King, Stephen [Author] Self, Will [Author] et. al. Freeman, John [Editor]

ISBN 10: 1905881363 / ISBN 13: 9781905881369

Published by Sigrid Rausing, London, UK, 2011

About this Item

Octavo, 256 pages. In Very Good condition, contained in a plastic covering with a cardboard backing. Parchment yellow spine with black and red lettering. Covers have mild wear along the edges, mild wear along the fore corners, and mild wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Daniel Alarcon, and Julie Otsuka on the title page of each author's story. Shelved Room C. This magazine contains short stories from various authors including Paul Auster, Stephen King, and Don DeLillo. 1386193. Special Collections.

Seller Inventory # 1386193

Bibliographic Details

• Title: GRANTA 117: HORROR [Signed]
• Publisher: Sigrid Rausing, London, UK
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905881363
• ISBN 13: 9781905881369
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

It haunts us; it stalks us; it shapes us. It creeps into our dreams and, if we allow it, can plague our ponderings of the future. The same ‘monsters’ that lived under our childhood beds can reappear, alive and toothsome, in our adult lives. And perhaps most frightening of all: without reason or apology, one person’s fancy is another person’s torment. Granta 117 takes a stab at understanding the phenomenon that is horror.

With award-winning writing, Granta has illuminated the most complex issues of modern life. In 117, Stephen King writes of a retired judge who pays repeated visits to a patch of sand capable of predicting human mortality. Don DeLillo climbs into the head a moviegoer-turned-stalker. Joy Williams writes of a father with a grown son even stranger and less stable than he suspects. Rajesh Parameswaran presents us with a tiger who narrates its own escape from a zoo and its subsequent terrorizing of a neighborhood, while Daniel Alarcon explores the phenomenon of staged, high-camp blood baths. And Mark Doty ruminates on a close encounter between Walt Whitman and Bram Stoker. Also new work by Paul Auster, Will Self, and Julie Otsuka.

Come along. Hold tight. Get scared…

About the Author

John Freeman’s criticism has appeared in more than 200 newspapers around the world, including the Guardian, the Independent, The Times and the Wall Street Journal. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as president of the National Book Critics Circle. His first book, THE TYRANNY OF EMAIL, was published in October by Scribner in the US and Text in Australia.