Rhys Hughes
Autore di A New Universal History of Infamy
Sull'Autore
Opere di Rhys Hughes
Crepuscularks and Phantomimes: Gothic, Ghostly & Lovecraftian Tales in the Ironic Mode (2020) 5 copie
The Rhondda Rendezvous 2 copie
The Old House Under the Snow 1 copia
Feet Of Sciron 1 copia
Toastmaster, Buttermistress 1 copia
The Grin of the Doll Who Ate His Mother's Face in the Dark and Other Dreadful Tales — A cura di — 1 copia
The Singularity Spectres 1 copia
The Folded Page 1 copia
The Exploits of Engelbrecht 1 copia
The Knees of Kionga 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (2003) — Collaboratore — 769 copie
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists (2011) — Catalog Contributor — 430 copie
Bang!: An Anthology of Modern Noir Fiction — Collaboratore — 11 copie
The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths: The Best New Original Stories of the Genre (2020) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Rustblind and Silverbright: A Slipstream Anthology of Railway Stories (2013) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Nemonymous 1: A Megazanthus for Parthenogenic Fiction and Late Labelling (2007) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Occult Detective Magazine #10 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Diabolical Plots: Year Four (Diabolical Plots Anthology Series Book 3) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Hughes, Rhys Henry
- Data di nascita
- 1966-09-24
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Wales, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Cardiff, Wales, UK
Swansea, Wales, UK - Attività lavorative
- writer
essayist
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A master of the literary pun and the unique metaphor. A bit too repetitive for my taste. My favorite stories were probably the ones that were most conventional and least surreal; although I liked most of the stories. The ones I probably was most turned off by happened to be most of the longer stories. I did enjoy the connecting arc over the entire collection.
If you are new to Rhys Hughes this is a good place to start.
If you are new to Rhys Hughes this is a good place to start.
Un curioso y desacarado homenaje al maravilloso Italo Calvino. Diez cuentos en su mayoría muy breves, que se leen en un suspiro y con una sonrisa en los labios. Mi favorito tal vez sea "The Planet of Perfect Happiness". Me ha dejado con ganas de leer los "Thirty Tributes to Calvino", buena señal.
"I heard the tramp of feet, five feet in total, which meant only a single visitor, for three feet always belong to Chives; I gave him the extra leg when I invented him, for the sake of stability and speed. And also because he's a monster."
That's probably enough to tell you whether you'll enjoy this charmingly bizarre tale of the theft of the sky and its replacement with a stone ceiling. Renowned Absurdity Investigator (where's one of them when you need one?) Sampietro Mischief aims to find out who did it and why with the assistance (or not) of his butler (and monster) Chives.
Full of throwaway one-line ingenious ideas like Mischief's fear about "the extinction of electricity, which I had wrongly believed to be an animal", the story invites you to revel in its absurdity. Never mind worries about vitamin D deficiency when the sun has disappeared, how will you work out which 3 o'clock is which when there are two in every day and they're both dark? And more importantly, why isn't Chives appearing with the brandy when he's called?
I enjoyed this foray into the perfectly logical illogicality of the world of Mischief (and especially Chives - who doesn't love a monster sidekick?) and I'm pleased to see that a second in the series, [b:The Polo Match|12865480|The Polo Match (Sampietro Mischief #2)|Rhys Hughes|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1318496847s/12865480.jpg|18017605], is available for the next time I need a dose of cheerful madness!… (altro)
That's probably enough to tell you whether you'll enjoy this charmingly bizarre tale of the theft of the sky and its replacement with a stone ceiling. Renowned Absurdity Investigator (where's one of them when you need one?) Sampietro Mischief aims to find out who did it and why with the assistance (or not) of his butler (and monster) Chives.
Full of throwaway one-line ingenious ideas like Mischief's fear about "the extinction of electricity, which I had wrongly believed to be an animal", the story invites you to revel in its absurdity. Never mind worries about vitamin D deficiency when the sun has disappeared, how will you work out which 3 o'clock is which when there are two in every day and they're both dark? And more importantly, why isn't Chives appearing with the brandy when he's called?
I enjoyed this foray into the perfectly logical illogicality of the world of Mischief (and especially Chives - who doesn't love a monster sidekick?) and I'm pleased to see that a second in the series, [b:The Polo Match|12865480|The Polo Match (Sampietro Mischief #2)|Rhys Hughes|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1318496847s/12865480.jpg|18017605], is available for the next time I need a dose of cheerful madness!… (altro)
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- Utenti
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
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- Recensioni
- 11
- ISBN
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- Lingue
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- Preferito da
- 6
“This collection is dedicated to every reader who loves Weird fiction but doesn’t take it too seriously. It is also dedicated to everyone who opposes fascism of any variety.”
And it’s not only Lovecraft’s social and political opinions that are mocked in verse. The cover illustration is but one instance of Hughes’s humor. There are several snide takes in verse on Lovecraft’s chin at the bottom of the long face he inherited from his English ancestors.… (altro)