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A Stark And Wormy Knight
A Fantasy Short Story Collection by Tad Williams
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Short Story Collection,
- Anthology,
- Dragons,
- Knights,
- Zombie
This book is for you if you're into...
- Short stories riffing on dragons, zombies, and comic book worlds
- Meta tales with witty language and inventive storytelling
- Rare scripts and stories expanding familiar fantasy universes
A fat new collection by best-selling fantasy and science fiction author Tad Williams, containing new material original to this book.
Tad Williams is an acknowledged master of the multi-volume epic. Through such popular series as Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn and Otherland, he has acquired a huge and devoted body of readers who eagerly await each new publication.
A Stark and Wormy Knight offers those readers something both special and surprising: a virtuoso demonstration of Williams's mastery of a variety of shorter forms. The range of tone, theme, style, and content reflected in this generous volume is nothing short of amazing.
The title story is a tale within a tale of dragons and knights and is notable for its wit and verbal inventiveness.
The Storm Door uses The Tibetan Book of the Dead to forge a singular new approach to the traditional zombie story.
The Terrible Conflagration at the Quiller's Mint offers a brief, independent glimpse into the background of Williams's Shadowmarch series.
Ants provides an ironic account of what can happen when a marriage goes irrevocably wrong.
Two of the longer entries show Williams working, with great facility, within the fictional creations of other writers.
The Thursday Men is a hugely entertaining foray into the world of Mike Mignolla's Hellboy comics.
The wonderfully titled The Lamentably Comical Tragedy (or the Laughably Tragic Comedy) of Lixal Laqavee is both a first-rate fantasy and a deeply felt homage to Jack Vance's immortal Dying Earth.
Two other pieces offer rare and hard-to-find glimpses into other facets of Williams's talent.
Bad Guy Factory is the script for a proposed series of DC Comics that never came to fruition.
Black Sunshine is the immensely readable screenplay for a movie that remains, at least for the moment, unproduced. One can only hope.
These and other stories and novellas comprise a stellar collection that really does contain something for everyone.
For longtime Williams readers, and for anyone with a taste for literate imaginative fiction, A Stark and Wormy Knight is a welcome, and indispensable, volume.
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