A FICTION HOUSE BOOK: DREAM WORLD was an experiment by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company and the editors of AMAZING STORIES and FANTASTIC. For three issues in 1957 it lasted before the plug was pulled on the experi-ment. We present seventeen of the stories which appeared in this fantasy magazine, along with the non-fiction features and cartoons.
These formulas at the end of a fairy tale are a rite de sortie, because a fairy tale takes you far away into the childhood dream world of the collective unconscious, where you may not stay. Now imagine that you live in a peasant house ...
Lovecraft expressed disdain for magic and religion, and most of his biographers have dismissed the mystical side of his nature. This book redresses this imbalance.
Such prose style frequently occurred in late Tang tales, influenced by the fashionable parallel writing of the time (see Cheng Yizhong 程毅中, Tangdai xiaoshuo shihua 唐代小說史話, pp. 25657; Li Zongwei 李宗為, Tangren chuanqi 唐人傳奇, ...
He then related to the ruler how when he had been a child, he had once seen an old one-eyed storyteller at a market square and heard his tale. "Where the desert and the world of its great empire ends," he had said, "the dream world ...
It is possible that the subconscious world of dreams and myths has several functions. One of them is to help a person to find a genuine and meaningful life. All dreams seem to share a common factor: to create stories by the help of ...
... then that the woman who had come to help her was actually a manifestation of Kannon.1 In this story we see the free interpenetration of this world and the dream world, a common feature of medieval Japanese stories concerning dreams.
It is during one of his solitary wanderings after his separation that Jack rediscovers the train bridge under which he encountered the troll previously. ... the dark and hidden side which threatened to devour the life he longed for.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Rhode Island, USA. Although a sickly boy, Lovecraft began writing at a very young age, quickly developing a deep and abiding interest in science. At just sixteen he was writing a monthly ...
t's 2 AM as detective Tanya Black pulls onto the muddy Buddy Lee Road. She immediately turns off her headlights; relying on officers in rain coats, armed with flashlights, to direct her to the staging area. After parking her vehicle, ...
The three of them end up going to lunch together. There is much lively discussion in class. Mike also got to know Sue. Willie & Mike got into a fight, and Sue claimed they were fighting over her. Read the book to see how it turns out.