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The Panic Hand (1996)

by Jonathan Carroll

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Compared frequently to Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carroll is, in the worlds of Pat Conroy, an absolute original. The Panic Hand assembles in one volume the shorter works of this master, including the World Fantasy Award-winning tale Friend's Best Man and the short novels Uh-Oh and Black Cocktail.… (more)
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An early collection of Carroll's short stories, many from venues like Omni, F&SF and Weird Tales, but others original to the (original) German collection or non-fantastic outlets. The longest stories, such as Uh-Oh City and Black Cocktail, work best, as they tend to be in that crazy cosmology that Carroll creates in his novels, where God exists in the world, but not in any form that you expect. Still, one of my favorites is the very short Mr. Fiddlehead, that ends just when any other author would be starting, and by ending so is the perfect horror short. Given how almost all the stories are about death, regret, and failed marriages, it's surprising that this is not a depressing collection. What should be the saddest story, the non-fantastic The Fall Collection, about a man dying of a painful cancer, is one of the most joyous. Not all stories work, but probably what didn't work for me will be someone else's favorite. Recommended. ( )
  ChrisRiesbeck | Jan 24, 2015 |
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To Boris Cavlina and Joel Gotler
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On my fortieth birthday, Lenna Rhodes invited me over for lunch.
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That's the tradition--when one of us has a birthday, there's lunch, a nice present and a good laughing afternoon to cover the fact that we've moved one more step down the staircase.
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Please distinguish among:
  • the U.S. edition of Jonathan Carroll's story collection, The Panic Hand (1996), which includes the novella, "Black Cocktail";
  • the U.K. edition of the same title (1995), which does not include the novella; and
  • the German edition of Die panische Hand (1989), which contains fewer stories than the U.K. edition.
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Compared frequently to Shirley Jackson, Stephen King, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carroll is, in the worlds of Pat Conroy, an absolute original. The Panic Hand assembles in one volume the shorter works of this master, including the World Fantasy Award-winning tale Friend's Best Man and the short novels Uh-Oh and Black Cocktail.

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Contents:
  • Mr. Fiddlehead
  • Uh-Oh City
  • The Fall Collection
  • Friend’s Best Man
  • The Sadness of Detail
  • Waiting to Wave
  • The Jane Fonda Room
  • A Quarter Past You
  • My Zoondel
  • Learning to Leave
  • The Panic Hand
  • A Bear in the Mouth
  • Postgraduate
  • Tired Angel
  • The Dead Love You
  • Florian
  • The Life of My Crime
  • A Wheel in the Desert, the Moon on Some Swings
  • A Flash in the Pants
  • Black Cocktail
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