Refugees from an Imaginary Country

Refugees from an Imaginary Country is a collection of dark fantasy short stories by American writer Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in hardcover and trade paperback by W. Paul Ganley and Owlswick Press in March 1999.[1]

Refugees from
an Imaginary Country
AuthorDarrell Schweitzer
IllustratorStephen E. Fabian
Cover artistStephen E. Fabian
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy
PublisherW. Paul Ganley/Owlswick Press
Publication date
1999
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages232
ISBN0-932445-64-0
OCLC48609840

Summary

The collection consists of nineteen early works of the author, including one of his tales about the legendary madman Tom O'Bedlam. The pieces were originally published from 1988-1997 in various speculative fiction magazines and anthologies.

Contents
  • "Savages" (from Masques IV, Oct. 1991)
  • "On the Last Night of the Festival of the Dead" (from Interzone no. 90, Dec. 1994)
  • "The Outside Man" (from Narrow Houses, Dec. 1992)
  • "Minotauress" (from Amazing Stories v. 65, no. 6, Mar. 1991)
  • "Malevendra's Pool" (from Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy, Aut. 1989)
  • "Angry Man" (from Fear no. 16, Apr. 1990)
  • "The Sorcerer Evoragdou" (from The Ultimate Witch, Oct. 1993)
  • "The Strange Rider from the Far, Dark Land" (from Pulphouse no. 6, 1990)
  • "The Mysteries of the Faceless King" (from Weird Tales v. 50, no. 1, Spr. 1988)
  • "Runaway" (from I, Vampire, Sep. 1995)
  • "The Knight of Pale Countenance" (from The Merlin Chronicles, Oct. 1995)
  • "One of the Secret Masters" (from Dark Destiny, Dec. 1994)
  • "Climbing" (from After Hours no. 25, Win. 1995)
  • "The Death of Falstaff" (from Shakespearean Whodunnits, 1997)
  • "King Yvorian's Wager" (from Weird Tales v. 51, no. 2, Win. 1989/1990)
  • "Going to the Mountain" (from Monochrome: The Readercon Anthology, 1990)
  • "The Last Dangerous Lunacy" (from Amazing Stories v. 63, no. 3, Sep. 1988)
  • "Last Things" (from Classical Whodunnits, Oct. 1996)
  • "Refugees from an Imaginary Country" (from Interzone no. 116, Feb. 1997)

Reception

The collection was reviewed by Carolyn Cushman in Locus no. 460, May 1999, Tom Easton in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 1999, Chris Gilmore in Interzone no. 151, January 2000, Paul Di Filippo in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2000, and Kathryn S. Morrow in The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 2001.[1]

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References
  1. Refugees from an Imaginary Country title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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