Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1980 • Time-Life *See Condition

Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier 

TRADE PAPERBACK [1980] TIME LIFE

*SEE CONDITION 

Vintage trade paperback.  *staining to top of text block *two sets of pages toward rear of book have some unsightly spatter stains [see photos] - otherwise would be very good. 

John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald Dahl. With a cast of characters that ranges from man-eating flora to disgruntled devils and suburban salarymen (not that it's always easy to tell one from another), Collier's dazzling stories explore the implacable logic of lunacy, revealing a surreal landscape whose unstable surface is depth-charged with surprise.