monsters in the high altitudes? Something that has absorbed the bad vibes of its history? Being locked in dark and close places? Monstrous creatures that have somehow survived? Wild cats - lions, tigers, pumas, jaguars? This is the very stuff of our fascination with the outr??? the bizarre, the unexplained - the very stuff of horror - fantasy or sci-fi. Didn't the Master himself, Stephen King, write a tale about creatures in the upper atmosphere? And is not this what our planetary sci-fi often dwells on? Ghost stories use ...
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monsters in the high altitudes? Something that has absorbed the bad vibes of its history? Being locked in dark and close places? Monstrous creatures that have somehow survived? Wild cats - lions, tigers, pumas, jaguars? This is the very stuff of our fascination with the outr??? the bizarre, the unexplained - the very stuff of horror - fantasy or sci-fi. Didn't the Master himself, Stephen King, write a tale about creatures in the upper atmosphere? And is not this what our planetary sci-fi often dwells on? Ghost stories use that theory that objects - often places - absorb horrible things that have happened it their history. That other master, Edgar Allan Poe, used our feelings of panic when closed in tight, dark places. A whole series of films were wildly popular that used an update of those prehistoric creatures alive today. And turn a lion or tiger or jaguar loose in a city and see what panic quickly occurs. Many of the mysteries in this collection are not reminiscent of the Holmes tales - those have clues in them that the great detective points out to befuddled Watson - and the readers. Most of these tales use some secret that is revealed at the end - not clues in the stories. Yet this is one great fun collection of stories
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Illustrated by Harvey Dinnerstein. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Printing (stated). Ex Library (no library marks on outside, pocket was removed from ffl, stamps on first and final ffl, stamp on title page, signs where cover was removed from inside front and back cover), slight edge wear, mild soiling to cover and page ends, lightly bumped corners, pages just beginning to age darken, page ix loose but inserted.; 6 1/4 " by 9 1/4 "Tall.
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Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Harvey Dinnerstein. Very good Ex-library copy with envelope and stamps on endpapers, very mild soil in text edges, nice color illustrations, board covers are soiled and worn on corners and edges, light chippin gon spine bottom edge. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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