Sunday, October 29, 2006

The John Collier Reader

Mostly the same stories as those included in Fancies and Goodnights, plus the full text of his novel His Monkey Wife (I bogged down a few chapters in and abandoned it) and a couple of chapters from another novel, Defy the Foul Fiend OR The Misadventures of a Heart (quite good but lacking the sly magic of the short stories). Still a neat, occasionally nasty little trip. Noticed the preoccupations with psychoanalysis and art/writing more this time, and also the directly satirical elements.