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The Other Nineteenth Century: A Story Collection
The Other Nineteenth Century A Story Collection Author:Avram Davidson Containing Startling Revelations of the Lives of Everyday Persons; also, Truthful Accounts of Living Fossils, Montavarde's Camera, The Irradiodiffusion Machine, and El Vilvoy de las Islas; with Heinous Crimes, Noble Ladies in Adversity, Brilliant Detections, Imperial Eunuchs, Political Machinations, &c., &c. Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, wa... more »s widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. In 1998, Tor published The Avram Davidson Treasury, a definitive collection of his work in all genres. It won the Locus Award for Best Collection. Now, with The Other Nineteenth Century, Grania Davis and Henry Wessells have compiled a new collection focusing on Davidson's distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "the Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.« less