- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Broadway (Jan 1 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385242239
- ISBN-13: 978-0385242233
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 1.3 x 21.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 286 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,719,857 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Ryan's latest collection contains 12 stories of fantasy and horror, but the fantasy is too often weighted down by a leaden style and a tame imagination, and the horror tales are too infrequently capable of raising more than a tremor of uneasiness. Some of the entries, like the title story, spring from the author's Irish roots, and these have a spontaneous, almost folkloric quality. Others, like "Sheets" and "Hear the Whistle Blowing" are entirely artifice, weak ideas mechanically fleshed out. "The Lovely and Talented Maxine Kane" is perhaps the best-written tale, but the protagonist's fate is arbitrary and unearned. This story and several others in the book, including "Sand" and "Babies from Heaven," concern madness, but the treatments are superficial, and provide neither insights nor chills.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
From the macabre religious overtones of "Following the Way" and "Pieta" to the gently inescapable horror of "The Bones Wizard" and "The Rose of Knock," this collection of 12 stories (some previously published) by author/editor Ryan demonstrates a subtle approach to the fantasy-horror genre. Recommended for large libraries only. JC
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Alan Ryan sets new limits for weird tales!,
By David J Gorman (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Bones Wizard (Paperback)
The short story anthology, Bones Wizard, is a trip into an extreme twilight zone. On the surface each story is bizarre and shockingly original. Read them a second time and you'll be twice shocked.
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Alan Ryan sets new limits for weird tales!,
By David J Gorman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Bones Wizard (Paperback)
The short story anthology, Bones Wizard, is a trip into an extreme twilight zone. On the surface each story is bizarre and shockingly original. Read them a second time and you'll be twice shocked.
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