{"product_id":"ghosts-by-gaslight-9780061999710","title":"Ghosts by Gaslight","description":"Edited by Jack Dann (World Fantasy Award-winning co-editor of \u003cem\u003eDreaming Down Under\u003c\/em\u003e) and Nick Gevers (acclaimed editor and book reviewer), \u003cem\u003eGhosts by Gaslight\u003c\/em\u003e is a showcase collection of all-new stories of steampunk and supernatural suspense by modern masters of horror, fantasy, sf, and the paranormal. An absolutely mind-boggling gathering of some of today's very best dark storytellers--including Peter Beagle, James Morrow, Sean Williams, Gene Wolfe, Garth Nix, Marly Youmans, Jeffery Ford, and Robert Silverberg--\u003cem\u003eGhosts by Gaslight\u003c\/em\u003e offers chilling gothic and spectral tales in a delightfully twisted Victorian and Edwardian vein. Think Henry James's \u003cem\u003eTurn of the Screw\u003c\/em\u003e and Robert Louis Stevenson's \u003cem\u003eThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u003c\/em\u003e with a decidedly steampunk edge, and you're ready to confront \u003cem\u003eGhosts by Gaslight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDann, Jack:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jack Dann is a multiple award winning author who has written or edited over 60 books, including the groundbreaking novels \u003cem\u003eJunction\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStarhiker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Melted\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Memory Cathedral\u003c\/em\u003e -- which is an international bestseller, the Civil War novel \u003cem\u003eThe Silent\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBad Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e, which has been compared to the works of Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson and called the best road novel since the Easy Rider days. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDann's work has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, Castaneda, J. G. Ballard, Mark Twain, and Philip K. Dick. Philip K. Dick, author of the stories from which the films \u003cem\u003eBlade Runner\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTotal Recall\u003c\/em\u003e were made, wrote that Junction is where Ursula Le Guin's \u003cem\u003eLathe of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e and Tony Boucher's 'The Quest for Saint Aquin' meet...and yet it's an entirely new novel.... I may very well be basing some of my future work on Junction. Best-selling author Marion Zimmer Bradley called \u003cem\u003eStarhiker\u003c\/em\u003e a superb book... it will not give up all its delights, all its perfections, on one reading. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e has called Dann ...a true poet who can create pictures with a few perfect words. Roger Zelazny thought he was a reality magician and \u003cem\u003eBest Sellers\u003c\/em\u003e has said that Jack Dann is a mind-warlock whose magicks will confound, disorient, shock, and delight. The \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e compared his novel \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Melted\u003c\/em\u003e with Ingmar Bergman's film \u003cem\u003eThe Seventh Seal\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis short stories have appeared in \u003cem\u003eOmni\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/em\u003e and other major magazines and anthologies. He is the editor of the anthology \u003cem\u003eWandering Stars\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most acclaimed American anthologies of the 1970's, and several other well-known anthologies such as \u003cem\u003eMore Wandering Stars\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eWandering Stars\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMore Wandering Stars\u003c\/em\u003e have just been reprinted in the U.S. Dann also edits the multi-volume \u003cem\u003eMagic Tales\u003c\/em\u003e series with Gardner Dozois and is a consulting editor TOR Books. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe is a recipient of the Nebula Award, the Australian Aurealis Award (twice), the Ditmar Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award, and the Premios Gilgamés de Narrativa Fantastica award. Dann has also been honoured by the Mark Twain Society (Esteemed Knight).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHigh Steel\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel co-authored with Jack C. Haldeman II, was published in 1993. Critic John Clute called it a predator...a cat with blazing eyes gorging on the good meat of genre. It is most highly recommended. A sequel entitled \u003cem\u003eGhost Dance\u003c\/em\u003e is in progress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDann's major historical novel about Leonardo da Vinci -- entitled \u003cem\u003eThe Memory Cathedral\u003c\/em\u003e -- was first published in December 1995 to rave reviews. It has been published in 10 languages to date. It won the Australian Aurealis Award in 1997, was #1 on The Age bestseller list, and a story based on the novel was awarded the Nebula Award. \u003cem\u003eThe Memory Cathedral\u003c\/em\u003e was also shortlisted for the Audio Book of the Year, which was part of the 1998 Braille \u0026amp; Talking Book Library Awards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMorgan Llwelyn called \u003cem\u003eThe Memory Cathedral\u003c\/em\u003e a book to cherish, a validation of the novelist's art and fully worthy of its extraordinary subject. The \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e called it a grand accomplishment, \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e thought it was An impressive accomplishment, and \u003cem\u003eTrue Review\u003c\/em\u003e said, Read this important novel, be challenged by it; you literally haven't seen anything like it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDann's next novel \u003cem\u003eThe Silent\u003c\/em\u003e was chosen by \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e as one of their 'Hot Picks.' \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e wrote: This is narrative storytelling at its best -- so highly charged emotionally as to constitute a kind of poetry from hell. Most emphatically recommended. Auhor Peter Straub said, This tale of America's greatest trauma is full of mystery, wonder, and the kind of narrative inventiveness that makes other novelists want to hide under the bed. And \u003cem\u003eThe Australian\u003c\/em\u003e called it an extraordinary achievement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis contemporary road novel \u003cem\u003eBad Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e (titled \u003cem\u003eCounting Coup\u003c\/em\u003e in the U.S.) has been called a vivid and compelling vision-quest through the dark back roads and blue highways of the American soul. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDann is also the co-editor (with Janeen Webb) of the groundbreaking Australian anthology \u003cem\u003eDreaming Down-Under\u003c\/em\u003e, which Peter Goldsworthy has called the biggest, boldest, most controversial collection of original fiction ever published in Australia. It has won Australia's Ditmar Award and is the first Australian book ever to win the prestigious World Fantasy Award. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDann is also the author of the retrospective short story collection \u003cem\u003eJubilee: the Essential Jack Dann\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eThe West Australian\u003c\/em\u003e said it was Sometimes frightening, sometimes funny, erudite, inventive, beautifully written and always intriguing. \u003cem\u003eJubilee\u003c\/em\u003e is a celebration of the talent of a remarkable storyteller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs part of its \u003cem\u003eBibliographies of Modern Authors Series\u003c\/em\u003e, The Borgo Press has published an annotated bibliography and guide entitled \u003cem\u003eThe Work of Jack Dann\u003c\/em\u003e. An updated second edition is in progress. Dann is also listed in \u003cem\u003eContemporary Authors and the Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series; The International Authors and Writers Who's Who; Personalities of America; Men of Achievement; Who's Who in Writers, Editors, and Poets, United States and Canada; Dictionary of International Biography; the Directory of Distinguished Americans; Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eWho's Who in the World\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDann commutes between Melbourne and a farm overlooking the sea. 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