The Mysteries of the Faceless King [Signed Hardcover] by Darrell Schweitzer

Product code: 978-1-786364-43-2
THIS IS A SIGNED & NUMBERED COPY

The Mysteries of the Faceless King: The Best Short Fiction of Darrell Schweitzer Volume 1

A COLLECTION by Darrell Schweitzer
CATEGORY Horror / Fantasy
PUBLICATION DATE April 2020
COVER ART Jason Van Hollander
INTRODUCTION Michael Swanwick
PAGES 350

EDITIONS
Unsigned Jacketed Hardcover — ISBN  978-1-786364-42-5 [£25]
100 Signed Jacketed Hardcovers signed by Darrell Schweitzer & Michael Swanwick — ISBN 978-1-786364-43-2 [£40]

SYNOPSIS

Darrell Schweitzer’s career stretches back to the early 1970s. He has written novels, most notably The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995), which was expanded from a World Fantasy Award finalist novella, but he has probably most distinguished himself for a steady stream of short fiction which caused anthologist Mike Ashley (in The Mammoth Book of Sorcerers’ Tales) to call him “today’s supreme stylist” in the fantasy field. His work has appeared in a great variety of publications ranging from Amazing Stories and Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone magazine to Interzone and numerous PS Publishing anthologies. The present volume is the first major retrospective of his work.

“Once upon a time . . .   None of the stories collected herein begin with those words, though some come close. But they might as well. For Darrell Schweitzer writes a very traditional sort of story. His fiction is almost always fantasy, which is a mode nested deep in the roots of Story, usually horror, a mode as old as nightmares, and very often weird fantasy, a much more recent mode but one that is dear to his heart. Most could have been written a hundred years ago—or, with equal ease, a hundred years in the future. This is not a criticism. Timelessness is precisely what he is after.

Brand PS Publishing
Condition New
Product Code 978-1-786364-43-2
Weight 0.4kg