Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic

Twenty-two essential essays on The Fantastic, including: In Smoke and Soot I Will Worship, The Ghosts of Sauk County, Portrait in Moonlight, A World of Great Majesty, A Collision of World-Views, A Torrent of Eldritch Terrors, The Edge of Running Water, A Universe Shot Through with Invisible Forces, After the Great Destruction, Against the Spirit, Ecstasy and Boundaries, Old England, New England, In Lonely Places, Story-Telling Wonder-Questing Mortal Me, The Edge of Shadows, The Ninefold Kingdom; and on writers Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Arthur Machen and many others...