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Imaginative short stories! Ghosts, fairies, gods, sorceresses, and magic. Set in Brothers Grimm age or modern days, and even two in the near future. Many of them deal with the passion and heartache between husbands and wives and people's compassion for each other, so these are for grownups.Parks has a powerful almost epic-ballad writing style. It is wonderful to read. My wife was delighted when I read "THE OGRE'S WIFE" to her.I gave this edition three stars because of occasional cursing and a su...
Richard Parks is a great short story writer and there is much to enjoy in this, his first collection. I do feel that Parks has improved as a writer since this collection and also that this volume shows him dabbling in a wide range of story types before finding areas in which he can work best as is seen in later stories. As such I would suggest if you are new to Parks you might want to start with his more recent collections but there is much to love here for any reader of fantasy/ sf who can appr...
I quite liked many of the stories in this book. I'm especially fond of stories that riff on myths or tales from other cultures, and this book had some good ones. "Golden Bell, Seven, and the Marquis of Zeng" was a lovely story to end the book on. This story and "A Place to Begin" made me remember Barry Hughart's novels too. This is a good thing. :) I thought the Eli Mothersbaugh stories were the weakest in the book. They made me think of Carnacki the Ghost Finder, by William Hope Hodgson, though...
This is a nice mix of fantasy/fairy tales and science fiction stories. I usually like fairy tales, but in this collection those stories fell a little flat for me. I liked the title story and then the more science fiction stories ("Doppel" and the Mothersbaugh stories where ghosts have been scientifically proven real)
This book really went above and beyond the expectations that I had for it. Of the 15 stories, I found 9 of them to be excellent, 5 of them good, and 1 of them amazing. I would say that it is definitely worth an evening or two to read this eclectic collection of insightful stories. fyi...the amazing one is called How Konti Scrounged the WorldEXCERPTS....It was the most beautiful country Jack had ever see.He looked around with a rising sense of futility, trying to imagine a time, if any, when he w...
I really enjoyed this book though it isn't much like fairy tales. There's some fantasy, some paranormal/ghost stories, some mythology and some science-fiction. The stories seemed to connect to each other, though, which I thought was very clever.
