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About Short Tall Tales (Unabridged)

A varied collection of short stories from the acknowledged British master of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, Brian Lumley, in a single volume of all three domains of the imagination–but more especially the haunts of the sinister and macabre! Inspired by the weird tales of the great Edgar Allan Poe and, as some listeners might reasonably insist, the even greater H. P. Lovecraft–himself an admirer of Poe–here is a host of rather more modern witcheries from times since the sad demise of many such old masters, based on eras long forgotten before all such tale-tellers so much as existed; concepts spawned in an immemorial past that even now continues to provide the source and fundamentals of similar conceits, such as they were, in the shape of folk legends and the frequently monstrous cautions of so-called “fairy tales”, in modes made their own by the antique yarns of the Brother’s Grimm, now sadly long-demised–a fact that in itself says a lot for the longevity of these genres! Stories included in this collection: "The Man in the Dream" "Late Shopping" "Spider in the Bath" "Memory?" "The Lecture" "Hell Is a Personal Place" "Problem Child" "The Sorceror's Dream" "Mother Love" "Not a Creature Was Stirring" "In the Glow Zone" "Little Man Lost" "Snarker's Son" "What Dark God?" "The Strange Years" "The Man Who Saw No Spiders" "Swamped" "A Really Game Boy" "A Dreamer's Tale" "In Dublin's Fair City" As well as three short stories in just 50 words each and four favorite poems from Ghoul Warning