The Double Shadow
Posted by:
Atropos (IP Logged)
Date: 26 January, 2004 01:33PM
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone had picked up the Wildside Press reprinting of The Double Shadow. I've read all the stories; I'm just wondering if it is a handsome volume that would be worth adding to a CAS collection. Also, anyone care to comment on the logic of returning another CAS sampler to print (even one selected by CAS himself)? While it is always a good thing for another CAS book to be in print, it seems that most publishers have, as of late, only been printing wide-ranging CAS short story selections which lack theme or organization (with the exception of Hippocampus and Nightshade, who have been doing great work in printing newly discovered CAS). Arkham House's Rendezvous reprint, Gollancz's The Emperor of Dreams and now Wildside's The Double Shadow are all just scratching the tip of the iceberg. They seem to provide introductions for those unacquainted with CAS instead of doing what I think needs to be done: a systematic return to print of CAS's prose. Necronomicon Press seemed to be embarking upon this course with Tales of Zothique and The Book of Hyperborea; sadly, no more volumes have followed and the previous installments are no longer easily available. Many stories of Averoigne, as well as some of CAS's sci-fi and weird fiction, haven't been reprinted since the Arkham House editions. While I understand the obstacles to such a project, it seems that interest in CAS and his work is waxing, perhaps enough to make a project of this magnitude financially feasible.