Re: (tears) Basilisk edited by Ellen Kushner

On 7/21/25 13:44, William Hyde wrote:

James Nicoll wrote:

Basilisk edited by Ellen Kushner
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An assortment of disco-era fantasy stories.
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https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/a-box-of-chocolates
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Interesting cover.
 Because when one thinks of R. A. Lafferty, one automatically thinks of T&A.
 William Hyde

Very interesting. I was busy with other matters in 1980 and I believe I missed this totally.
Looking futher I found the following list of works that might be enjoy by lovers of fantasy.  I noted many books I had read some long ago.

The list is an interesting mix of familiar and unfamiliar (to me) works:
 The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Very good.>

The Face in The Frost by John Bellairs
 The Book of Weird by Barbara Ninde Byfield
 (also published as The Glass Harmonica)
 The Silver Stallion by James Branch Cabell

  when I was in my 20s - he much impressed me.>

The High Place by James Branch Cabell

All of the series by James Branch Cabell
which are in the main concerned with the adventures of
a swineherd under a geas from his mama go make a
fine figure of himself in the larger world.  He goes
a long way.

The Borribles by Michael De Larrabeiti
 The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison
 Mistress Of Mistresses (and its sequels) by E. R. Eddison
 The Owl Service by Alan Garner

Very good.

 The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
 The Spellcoats by Diana Wynne Jones
 Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones
 The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley
 The Wizard of Earthsea (And its sequels) by Ursula K. Le Guin

I waited as we say with 'bated breath for trhe next volume to come out.>

The Wind’s Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
 “From Elfland to Poughkeepsie” in The Language of The Night  by Ursula K. Le Guin
 Swords In the Mist by Fritz Leiber
 Swords Against Wizardry
 (and others in the series) by Fritz Leiber

Fritz used to live nearby in San Francisco and Fafred and the Grey Mouser were
delightful.>

The Chronicles of Narnia (six books) by C. S. Lewis
 Taash And the Jesters by Ellen Kindt Mckenzie
 The Riddle-Master of Hed (and its sequels) by Patricia A. McKillip
 The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip
 The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
 “On Fairy Stories” in The Tolkien Reader (Tree and Leaf) by J. R. R. Tolkien
 A Traveller in Time by Allison Uttley
 The Book of The Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
 1: The front and back cover design is very late Disco Ace. No barcode, because books didn’t have
barcodes back then. More room for cover copy!

2: I prefer the 1980 cover because the title is more legible, although I do wonder what happened to the topless lady’s nipples.

        The airbrush covered them up. SOP in those distant days. bliss- reviewing good old memories