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Cover artist
  
Frank Utpatel

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

ISBN
  
0-87054-069-6

Originally published
  
1975

Genre
  
Fantasy

OCLC
  
1365898

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
viii, 143 pp

Dewey Decimal
  
823/.8

Author
  
M. P. Shiel

Country
  
United States of America

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Xélucha and Others is a collection of stories by author M. P. Shiel. It was released in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,283 copies. It was the author's first book published by Arkham House and was first announced in Arkham's 1948 catalog. It contains the stories Shiel considered to be his best.

Contents

Contents

Xélucha and Others contains the following tales:

  1. "Introduction"
  2. "Xélucha"
  3. "The Primate of the Rose"
  4. "Dark Lot of One Saul"
  5. "The House of Sounds"
  6. "The Globe of Gold-Fish"
  7. "Many a Tear"
  8. "The Bride"
  9. "The Tale of Henry and Rowena"
  10. "The Bell of St. Sepulcre"
  11. "Huguenin's Wife"
  12. "The Pale Ape"
  13. "The Case of Euphemia Raphash"

Reception

Gahan Wilson reviewed the collection favorably, noting that even the lesser-known stories are "well worth your time" and singling out the title story as "an excellent example of Shiel's knack for decadence and is highly informative regarding the dietary preferences of graveyard worms."

References

Xélucha and Others Wikipedia
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