![]() ![]() No story writer ever bit more sharply or wrote more gracefully than John Collier. ![]() Michael Dirda, Washington Post, List of 66 Favorite Books Intense like poems, compressed like epigrams, short stories have always inclined to the lyrical and biting. ![]() With a cast of characters that ranges from man-eating flora to disgruntled devils and suburban salarymen (not that it's always easy to tell one from another), Collier's dazzling stories explore the implacable logic of lunacy, revealing a surreal landscape whose unstable surface is depth-charged with surprise.ĭeals with the Devil and other fiendish delights. Hoffmann and Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald Dahl. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Book Synopsis John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. ![]()
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