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Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
Written by John Langan
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Average Score:
60(2)
From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is initiated into a family story of monstrous deeds. A student learns frightening lessons in a surreal tutoring center. A young couple struggles to make their stand against a group of inhuman pursuers in a ravaged landscape. And, in a new story, an artist discovers a mysterious statue whose completion becomes his obsession.
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Book Details
Fantasy
Hardcover,
256 Pages
Published
by Prime Books on December 29, 2008
ISBN-10 0809572494
ISBN-13 978-0809572496
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Reviews
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Fantasy Literature
| Terry Weyna
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Review Rating: 80
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Each story is elegantly written, with craft evident in every sentence.
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Strange Horizons
| Abigail Nussbaum
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Review Rating: 40
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Unfortunately, the ratio of worthwhile stories to underbaked ones is so low that, though Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters gives every indication that Langan is becoming an intriguing and accomplished writer, as a work in its own right it isn't worth a reader's time and money.
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