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Such Things May Be: Collected Writings

Such Things May Be by James Wade (1930-1983), collects a number of the author's genre short stories, poetry, non-fiction and non-genre work from the 1960s onwards. Edited by Edward P. Berglund, the book will have James Wade's introduction to the original collection which never gained publication, plus Fritz Leiber's Foreword. The book includes tales from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos such as 'The Deep Ones', 'A Darker Shadow Over Innsmouth' and 'The Silence of Erika Zann'; darkly supernatural terror from the Midwest, 'The Nightingale Floors', 'The Pursuer', 'The Elevator' and 'Snow in the City'. Plus weird tales set in Korea: 'The Temple of the Fox' and 'Time After Time'. And many other short stories and poetry, Plus many essays and reviews of weird fiction. 25 short stories, over 20 poems and more than 30 essays and reviews in this major retrospective of the author.

After army service James Wade (1930-1983) settled in Korea and he wrote widely on music for a variety of periodicals. His symphonic and chamber music has been performed in many countries, and he completed an opera based on Richard E. Kim's best-selling novel of the Korean War, "The Martyred". He wrote a column for The Korea Times and his work has been anthologised by such noted editors as August Derleth, Ramsey Campbell, Stuart David Schiff and Herbert Val Thal.

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Such Things May Be: Collected Writings

Such Things May Be by James Wade (1930-1983), collects a number of the author's genre short stories, poetry, non-fiction and non-genre work from the 1960s onwards. Edited by Edward P. Berglund, the book will have James Wade's introduction to the original collection which never gained publication, plus Fritz Leiber's Foreword. The book includes tales from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos such as 'The Deep Ones', 'A Darker Shadow Over Innsmouth' and 'The Silence of Erika Zann'; darkly supernatural terror from the Midwest, 'The Nightingale Floors', 'The Pursuer', 'The Elevator' and 'Snow in the City'. Plus weird tales set in Korea: 'The Temple of the Fox' and 'Time After Time'. And many other short stories and poetry, Plus many essays and reviews of weird fiction. 25 short stories, over 20 poems and more than 30 essays and reviews in this major retrospective of the author.

After army service James Wade (1930-1983) settled in Korea and he wrote widely on music for a variety of periodicals. His symphonic and chamber music has been performed in many countries, and he completed an opera based on Richard E. Kim's best-selling novel of the Korean War, "The Martyred". He wrote a column for The Korea Times and his work has been anthologised by such noted editors as August Derleth, Ramsey Campbell, Stuart David Schiff and Herbert Val Thal.

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Such Things May Be: Collected Writings

Such Things May Be: Collected Writings

Such Things May Be: Collected Writings

Such Things May Be: Collected Writings

Overview

Such Things May Be by James Wade (1930-1983), collects a number of the author's genre short stories, poetry, non-fiction and non-genre work from the 1960s onwards. Edited by Edward P. Berglund, the book will have James Wade's introduction to the original collection which never gained publication, plus Fritz Leiber's Foreword. The book includes tales from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos such as 'The Deep Ones', 'A Darker Shadow Over Innsmouth' and 'The Silence of Erika Zann'; darkly supernatural terror from the Midwest, 'The Nightingale Floors', 'The Pursuer', 'The Elevator' and 'Snow in the City'. Plus weird tales set in Korea: 'The Temple of the Fox' and 'Time After Time'. And many other short stories and poetry, Plus many essays and reviews of weird fiction. 25 short stories, over 20 poems and more than 30 essays and reviews in this major retrospective of the author.

After army service James Wade (1930-1983) settled in Korea and he wrote widely on music for a variety of periodicals. His symphonic and chamber music has been performed in many countries, and he completed an opera based on Richard E. Kim's best-selling novel of the Korean War, "The Martyred". He wrote a column for The Korea Times and his work has been anthologised by such noted editors as August Derleth, Ramsey Campbell, Stuart David Schiff and Herbert Val Thal.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780957296268
Publisher: Shadow Publishing
Publication date: 01/20/2018
Pages: 522
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.16(d)

About the Author

After army service James Wade (1930-1983) settled in Korea and he wrote widely on music for a variety of periodicals. His symphonic and chamber music has been performed in many countries, and he completed an opera based on Richard E. Kim's best-selling novel of the Korean War, "The Martyred". He wrote a column for The Korea Times and his work has been anthologised by such noted editors as August Derleth, Ramsey Campbell, Stuart David Schiff and Herbert Val Thal.

Collection: Shards of Darkness (Mythos Books 2000). Anthologies: The Disciples of Cthulhu (DAW 1976), The Disciples of Cthulhu II (Chaosium 2003), Spoor Anthology 2 (The Strange Company 1974) Short stories in Space and Time, Eldritch Tales, Crossroads, The Sorcerer's Apprentices, Innsmouth Tales and others.

Fritz Leiber was the award-author of many horror, fantasy and science fiction novels and short stories. Influenced initially by H, P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, he went on to write many great pieces of genre fiction and created the heroic fantasy characters Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

Table of Contents

Preface by Edward P. Berglund, Foreword by Fritz Leiber, Introduction by James Wade, Full Cycle, Final Decree, The Elevator, Snow in the City, The Pursuer, Grooley, Something for Grooley. Grooley adaptation by Terence Staples, Time After Time, Temple of the Fox, The Deep Ones, The Nightingale Floors, The Facts in the Case, Who’s Got the Button?, Medium Without Message, The Silence of Erika Zann, A Darker Shadow Over Innsmouth,, A Swishing Over Innsmouth, The Sandals of Sargon, Those Who Wait, Planetfall on Yuggoth, Photo Finish, Cotton Mather’s Vision, What They Said, Moonlight, Night-Shadows, Satori, At the Corner of Walk and Don’t Walk: the 12th of Never, Sonnet, Nocturne, The Twilight of Faustus, Sonnet 1949, Farewell in Limbo, Panels for a Nativity, Wotan Brooding over the Ruins, Sauk City: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight, In Memoriam: H. P. Lovecraft, The Book in the Glade, A Poem about Bone Cancer in Children, Shoggoth Victim, Revisionist Sonnet, The Sinister Sonnet, H. P. Lovecraft, Esq, Mist, My Love, Untitled Poem, Limmerks, Fan-Tasia, The Commuter, Tonic Triad, Foreign Policy, The Scowler, Among the Sand Dunes at Crane Rock Point, Three Sonnets by H. P. Lovecraft for Voice and Piano, Film Review: Spirits of the Dead, Review: Mulligan, Come Home!, Book Review: The Green Man, Film Flam, My Life with the Greatest Old One, The Mass Media Horror, Lunch with Mr. Bloch, Review: Lovecraft’s Follies, Book Review: Selected Letters III, Book Review: The Collected Ghost Stories of Oliver Onions, Film Review: Don’t Look Now, Arkham House: Promise and Performance, Book Review: The Height of the Scream, Book Review: The House of the Worm, A Sense of Otherness, Book Review: Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales, Book Review: Interview With the Vampire, A Shipboard Reading List, Book Review: The Beyonders, Book Review: The Great White Space, Book Review: The Princess of All Lands, Fritz Leiber Revisited: From Hyde Park to Geary Street, Book Review: An Index to the Selected Letters, of H. P. Loevcraft, Book Review: Lord of the Hollow Dark, You Can’t Get There From Here: “How the Old Woman , Got Home” and M. P. Shiel as Thinker, Lovecraft and Farnese in Harmony and Discord, Some Parallels between Arthur Machen and H. P. Lovecraft, Book Review: Lovecraft: A Biography, Book Review: Lovecraft At Last, Book Review: Prince Zaleski and Cummings King Monk, Book Review: The Witchfinder, Book Review: Worth the Waiting, Book Review: Xelucha and Others.

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