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Author:	E. F. Benson
Title:	The Outcast And Other Dark Tales
Publisher:	British Library
Country:	UK
Date:	19 Mar 2020
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	823.8
Genre:	Fiction, Horror, Fantasy
ISBN13 / Barcode:	9780712353861
Rating:	7.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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'B' format 284pp plus notes on other publications in the same, British Library Tales of the Weird series. Edited by Mike Ashley.
Frontispiece illustration: Standing Stone; Wingletang, Scilly Isles

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ppint. 8th Dec 2020		*g* i'll agree it's a bit of a toss-up; both horror and fantasy stories are present - and some are both. (it's decades since this ppint. last read any e. r. benson - after deciding that i'd met too many nameless, formless, indescribable horrors, indistinguishable from one another, i not only stopped reading horror category fiction, but also ceased looking for any more ''weird fantasy''...) given that fantasy stories need not contain any knights in shining armour, nor any dragons at all, - are any of the stores here ''weird, but neither horror nor fantasy'' ?



OldMod67 7th Dec 2020		Horror seemed the best catch-all due to the 'dark' nature of the fiction. I did toy with adding Fantasy, but that to me conjures up dragons and the like. I'm still reading this book as if was an advance copy sent from British Library, sat waiting for me at work the whole time I was on Covid furlough...



ppint. 6th Dec 2020		not all of the stories are horror, not all of them are fantasy: all are definitely what was known as ''weird fiction'' from the late twenties/early thirties through about 1969-70, after which horror fiction became a major publishing category in its own right. british library tales of the weird series #14 published simultaneously as an ebook by british library publishing, isbn 978-07123-6755-4



OldMod67 6th Dec 2020		(Introduction by Mike Ashley) Contents / (pub date) Dummy on a Dahabeah (1/6/1896) A Winter Morning (1893) Between the Lights (12/1907) The Thing in the Hall (1912) The Passenger (3/1917) The Light in the Garden (23/11/1921) The Outcast (4/1922) The Top Landing (7/6/1922) The Face (2/1924) The Corner House (5/1926) By the Sluice (25/11/1927) Pirates (10/1928) The Secret Garden (1940) The Flint Knife (12/1929) The Bath-Chair (1934) The Dance (1934) Billy Comes Through (3/1936) (Story Sources)

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