{"product_id":"fantasy-kit-paperback","title":"Fantasy Kit - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam McOmber\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Adam McOmber could be describing \u003cem\u003eFantasy Kit\u003c\/em\u003e as a whole with these lines: \"This is my house. The one I've been telling you about...You think: I know that house...But I can assure you you're wrong about that. You've never seen my house.\" In reading \u003cem\u003eFantasy Kit, \u003c\/em\u003e I felt like a visitor to a strange theme park constructed of smoke and clay, lust and the uncanny, wickedness and tenderness. Here readers are ushered into mazes and caverns, paradises and pleasure gardens; whisked to Neverland, Mars, ancient Rome, and a cornfield in Ohio. Throughout, McOmber writes with singular imagination and delight. These stories bewitch.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Michelle Ross\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Adam McOmber's stories are the work of an architect and master illusionist. He constructs fairy tales that twist into labyrinths, labyrinths that open up gloriously into new myths-and always, as if just under the page, is the thump and flow of blood, the pulsing, hidden desire of the human heart.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-James Tadd Adcox\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Evocative, inventive, disquieting, thrilling, sensual-here, to borrow a phrase, is story in all its occult guises. If, after you read the first story in Jackson's \u003cem\u003eThe Lottery\u003c\/em\u003e, Poe's \u003cem\u003eTales of the Grotesque and Arabesque\u003c\/em\u003e, or Carter's \u003cem\u003eThe Bloody Chamber, \u003c\/em\u003eyou couldn't stop until you'd finished the book, I have good news: You've found your next page turner. The stories in \u003cem\u003eFantasy Kit \u003c\/em\u003emay be short, but their effects are potent. Prepare for exquisite pleasures on every page.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Gabriel Blackwell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam McOmber is the author of three novels \u003ci\u003eThe White Forest\u003c\/i\u003e (Touchstone), \u003ci\u003eJesus and John\u003c\/i\u003e (Lethe), and \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Finders\u003c\/i\u003e (JournalStone) as well as two collections of short fiction \u003ci\u003eThis New \u0026amp; Poisonous Air\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA Editions). His short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eConjunctions, Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, Diagram\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous other magazines and journals. He teaches in the MFA Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts where he is also the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine \u003ci\u003eHunger Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50405677629677,"sku":"9781625570376","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/fantasy-kit-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}