The Cleft and Other Odd Tales
by Gahan Wilson
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Sometimes amusing, sometimes frightening, Wilson's short fiction is as eclectic as his cartooning. "Campfire Story" mixes nostalgia with unease. "The Marble Boy" is a story in the oral tradition--a tale that might be told around a campfire or during a sleepover. These tales and the twenty-two others that fill out this collection are entertaining and unnerving. The Cleft and Other Odd Talescontains more than two dozen original Gahan Wilson illustrations.Tags
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Wilson is an absolute master of the weird tale, and a writer whose prose is a pleasure in itself. How can you resist an opening sentence like this one from "The Casino Mirago": "At the end of a very long chain of many things gone most astonishingly wrong I found myself booked out of season under an assumed name in the grandest suite of a Hotel Splendide located on the coast of Portugal."?
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