Tempting Providence and Other Stories
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Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Jonathan Thomas follows up the critical and popular success of his collection from , Midnight Call and Other Stories, with this new and substantial volume of weird tales long and short. The title story is a marvelous evocation of Providence yesterday and today, with much for the ghost of H. Lovecraft to dislike in the way his city has evolved. Providence is the sett Jonathan Thomas follows up the critical and popular success of his collection from , Midnight Call and Other Stories, with this new and substantial volume of weird tales long and short.
Providence is the setting for several other tales-tales that introduce us to such anomalies as a Lord of the Animals who seems to have an inexplicable sympathy with our four-footed friends, and a man whose quest for an extremely rare psychedelic album leads to something much stranger. In these twelve stories, Thomas fulfills the promise of his earlier work and shows that he has become one of the leading figures in contemporary supernatural horror.
The stories amuse, challenge, and unsettle.
Hippocampus Press Tempting Providence and Other Stories by Jonathan Thomas - Foreword by Sherry Austin ISBN Quirky horrors steeped in surreality distinguish Thomas's uneven second collection (after Midnight Call and Other Stories). In the title tale.
It certainly brought back memories of my own wanderings around the city in the '60s, the same 'wistful daydreams' his hero engages in, the sense that, if only HPL hadn't died so young, he might still be renting rooms in one of the neighborhood houses and enjoying a sundae or an evening stroll. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Tempting Providence and Other Stories , please sign up.
Be the first to ask a question about Tempting Providence and Other Stories. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Apr 09, Simon rated it really liked it Shelves: I was looking forward to reading another collection by this author after thoroughly enjoying Midnight Call and Other Stories and was not disappointed. Even more varied than that collection, although not containing as many stories, this showcases his versatility as an author. The themes explored in these stories include the dark side of human nature, supernatural encounters, dystopian futures and monstrous deities.
He talked on, with fidgety movements and restless eyes, and I knew quite well, of course, that all this talk about the counting of the Austrian General Staff was all beside the point, just a simple diversion of his to cheat his impatience. No, I don't think so. His love may have been somewhat blind, too noisy, and egotistical, perhaps even a little hysterical, but I swear that through these formal and trivial veilings I could see a great and genuine love—love at a sharp and painful tension. Darren marked it as to-read Sep 13, Be the first to add this to a list. I saw at once that he was bubbling over with some great inward happiness, and that he was desirous of seeing all around him as happy as he was.
He pays a healthy respect for the classics of the field yet injects his stories wit I was looking forward to reading another collection by this author after thoroughly enjoying Midnight Call and Other Stories and was not disappointed. He pays a healthy respect for the classics of the field yet injects his stories with originality and thematic twists that place them firmly in the here and now.
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I don't know of any other author that writes in quite the same way. In "Power of Midnight", he suggests that the radical shift in cultural direction at the end of the 70's ushered in by the Regan era might have been brought about my one's person's listening to a forbidden cursed album, an audio "necronomicon".
In "Tempting Providence" the protagonist is visited by Lovecraft's ghost in a sequence of events that appears to parallel Lovecraft's own story "Haunter of the Dark". A few of the stories I wasn't as keen on, such as "The Salvage Saints" which went on overly long in my opinion and "The Men At the Mound" which just didn't do much for me.
But these were exceptions to the rule in otherwise quality collection. May 03, David Marshall rated it really liked it. This is a particularly varied and interesting collection of stories ranging from the simply weird, to Lovecraft-influenced weird to more contemporary fiction in which an element of strangeness intrudes. This is worth seeking out. Sep 07, Roger Walker rated it really liked it. Overall a solid anthology. Set up My libraries How do I set up "My libraries"? This single location in All: The University of Melbourne Library.
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