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Black
feathers
:
dark
avian
tales
: an
anthology
/ edited by Ellen Datlow.
Pegasus Crime, 2017.
Call #:
FICTION BLA
Subjects
Birds -- Fiction
ISBN:
9781681773216 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Pegasus Books cloth ed.
Description:
xii, 308 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
O terrible bird / Sandra Kasturi -- The obscure bird / Nicholas Royle -- The mathematical inevitability of corvids / Seanan McGuire -- Something about birds / Paul Tremblay -- Great blue heron / Joyce Carol Oates -- The season of the raptors / Richard Bowes -- The orphan bird / Alison Littlewood -- The murmurations of Vienna von Drome / Jeffrey Ford -- Blyth's secret / Mike O'Driscoll -- The fortune of sparrows / Usman T. Malik -- Pigeon from hell / Stephen Graham Jones -- The secret of flight / A.C. Wise -- Isobel Avens returns to Stepney in the spring / M. John Harrison -- A little bird told me / Pat Cadigan -- The acid test / Livia Llewellyn -- The crow palace / Priya Sharma.
Summary:
"Birds are usually loved for their beauty and their song. They symbolize freedom, eternal life, the soul. There’s definitely a
dark
side to the
avian
. Birds of prey sometimes kill other birds (the shrike), destroy other birds’ eggs (blue jays), and even have been known to kill small animals (the kea sometimes eats live lambs). And who isn’t disgusted by birds that eat the dead--vultures awaiting their next meal as the life blood flows from the dying. One of our greatest fears is of being eaten by vultures before we’re quite dead. Is it any wonder that with so many interpretations of the
avian
, that the contributors herein are eager to be transformed or influenced by them? Included in
Black
Feathers
are those obsessed by birds of one type or another. Do they want to become birds or just take on some of the 'power' of birds? The presence or absence of birds portends the future. A grieving widow takes comfort in her majestic winged neighbors, who enable her to cope with a predatory relative. An isolated society of women relies on a bird to tell their fortunes. A silent young girl and her pet bird might be the only hope a detective has of tracking down a serial killer in a tourist town. A chatty parrot makes illegal deals with the dying. A troubled man lives in isolation with only one friend for company--a jackdaw. In each of these fictions, you will encounter the
dark
resonance between the human and
avian
. You see in yourself the savagery of a predator, the shrewd stalking of a hunter, and you are lured by birds that speak human language, that make beautiful music, that cypher numbers, and seem to have a moral center. You wade into this feathered nightmare, and brave the horror of death, trading your safety and sanity for that which we all seek--the promise of flight."--From publisher.
Genre:
Fantasy fiction.
Horror fiction.
Short stories.
Other authors:
Datlow, Ellen.
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