Nearly 400 pages: collects sixty-seven short, weird stories, all written and published between 1987-1999. LIMITED HARDCOVER EDITION: ''This Hardcover Edition of Weirdmonger is Limited To Fifty Signed And Numbered Copies For Distribution By Cold Tonnage Books''. Note: Prime books published this in 2003 as a trade paperback original, but we arranged with Sean Wallace of Prime to issue this very limited hardcover edition for distribution only by Cold Tonnage Books. Printing limited strictly to just fifty hardbound copies, all numbered, signed and dated by the author.
Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
''DF Lewis is a legend among readers of fantasy and horror fiction. These days he devotes his creative energies to editing his annual magazine Nemonymous, in which authors' identities are revealed only in the subsequent issue. Now Lewis has a big collection of his own heteromorphic short fiction in print: Weirdmonger is a substantial volume of often insubstantial pieces. Insubstantial only in terms of length, that is. Lewis writes some of the shortest short stories around and still makes them work. The long ones work, too. It's possible to detect the influence of English horror writer Ramsey Campbell, especially in the puns and wordplay, while the spirit of the American short story writer HP Lovecraft infuses every paragraph. 'The Scar Museum' finds the curator of that establishment arriving in a seaside spa town where he is confronted with more cicatrices than he can handle. He is enjoying a drink in a hotel bar when he notices a young woman sat opposite, her scars like 'tug-of-war teams competing for the bridge of her nose'. The consequences of the ensuing meeting, as ever with Lewis, are both horrible and wonderful. Keep 'Weirdmonger' by your bed, and when you wake up, you won't be sure if what's running through your head are the remains of your dreams or fragmented memories of the story you read before drifting off to sleep'' (Nicholas Royle/TIME OUT).
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