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Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes

Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes

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  • Create Date：2021-07-28 07:51:48
  • Update Date：2025-09-06
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  • Author：Kevan Manwaring
  • ISBN：0712353585
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Summary

Since Odysseus’ curious crew first unleashed the bag of winds gifted him by Aeolus， the God of Winds， literature has been awash with tales of bad or strange weather。 From the flood myths of Babylon， the Mahabharata and the Bible， to 20th century psychological storms， this foray into troubled waters， heat waves， severe winters， hurricanes， and hailstones， offers the perfect read on a rainy day—or night。 Featuring a selection of some of the finest writers in the English language—Algernon Blackwood， Herman Melville， Robert Louis Stevenson， Edgar Allan Poe， and more—this collection of weird tales will delight and disturb。

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Reviews

David P。 Kuzma ，

Skip the notesRead the stories and skip the notes。 The notes are basically a running essay filled with the author’s political viewpoints。 Even if you agree with the viewpoints， they will still pull you out of your enjoyment of the stories。

Karen Kohoutek ，

Very enjoyable， if not my absolute fave in the series。 You can probably guess from the theme， a collection of weird tales about weather and meteorological conditions， that these stories tend to be more on the abstract side。 So there's a lot of description， and a fair bit of science。 That made them read a little slower than the "OMG this is so scary！" human interest weird tales， but there's nothing wrong with that， and it was interesting to see the way this general subject was handled in weird fi Very enjoyable， if not my absolute fave in the series。 You can probably guess from the theme， a collection of weird tales about weather and meteorological conditions， that these stories tend to be more on the abstract side。 So there's a lot of description， and a fair bit of science。 That made them read a little slower than the "OMG this is so scary！" human interest weird tales， but there's nothing wrong with that， and it was interesting to see the way this general subject was handled in weird fiction。 Even the pulpy B-movie kind of stories were worth reading on their own merits。 And for some reason， I had never read Daphne du Maurier's original story "The Birds" before， and wow， it is so unsettling and unnerving， much more so than the film！ The phenomenon is also much more related to weird weather， which adds an extra disturbing dimension。 。。。more

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