Weirdmonger [Paperback]

D.F. Lewis (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Prime (October 13, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 189481584X
• ISBN-13: 978-1894815840
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,481,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

DF Lewis - the publisher of Nemonymous - was born in 1948 only a few miles from where he lives now on the Tendring Peninsula coast, has been married for 41 years & has a son and daughter. He attained a BA degree from Lancaster University (1966-69) and has been an office worker for most of his life. He loves reading fiction, writing fiction creatively beyond his own experience, constructively provoking people and listening to 'classical' music.

He has had approximately one thousand five hundred short fictions published in print from 1986 to 2000, some in hard-to-find outlets plus others in literary journals (eg: Stand, Iron, Orbis, Panurge etc.) and professional book anthologies. The latter include three volumes of 'Best New Horror' edited by Stephen Jones and five consecutive volumes of 'Year's Best Horror Stories' edited by Karl Edward Wagner. Other titles include 'Shadows Over Innsmouth' (Fedogan & Bremer), 'Horror Of The Next Millenium' (Darkside Press), 'Signals: London Magazine' (Constable), 'Cthulhu's Heirs' (Chaosium), 'Touch Wood' (Little, Brown), 'The Ex Files' (Quartet), 'The Ultimate Zombie' (Dell), 'Horror: Another 100 Best Books' (Carroll & Graf).

He received the British Fantasy Society Karl Edward Wagner Award in 1998.

Now sixty three years old in 2011, his literary aspirations have threaded his family life and professional business career: fiction experiments in depersonalisation and seeking a unified morality from among the Synchronised Shards of Random Truth & Fiction: 'difficult' extrapolative empathy in the art of fiction writing: and creating/distributing the acclaimed, ground-breaking series of multi-authored anthologies entitled Nemonymous (2001 - 2010). Recently, he has embarked upon a series of internet 'real-time reviews' of other writers' fiction.

Having published Nemonymous for ten years, his newest ambition has been to publish 'The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies' and it was indeed launched at the beginning of July 2011.

A previous book collection of DF Lewis short fiction was published as Weirdmonger - The Nemonicon (Prime Books 2003). Now out of print.

Weirdtongue - a novella by DF Lewis - was published by The InkerMen Press in 2010.

Nemonymous Night is a DF Lewis novel - a June 2011 publication by Chômu Press.

A definitive DF Lewis collection entitled 'The Last Balcony' has now happily found its future independent publisher.

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Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars D.F. Lewis: master of the bizarre, July 27, 2005

By 

Paul Dracon (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weirdmonger (Paperback)

So nobody's reviewed this book yet. That's a sad commentary,
because this book is a modern dark fantasy classic, and a must-read.

Des Lewis is one of the most underrated writers in the history of the horror genre, and an absolute master of the short story. His fiction is labyrinthian-- there's no such thing as "a" D.F. Lewis story, because his prose is so gorged full of original ideas; ornate crawlings.

Do I sound passionate on the subject of D.F. Lewis's fiction? That's because his work is an inspiration. His work transcends the borders between poetry and prose, horror and mainstream, philosophy and psychosis.

If you want to go to places no author has ever taken you, read D.F. Lewis. He'll take you on an elegant dreamride. If you want to have your imagination woven into bizarre new shapes then D.F. Lewis is your spider.

And by the way, this is also the ultimate writer's writer; so those of you who have your own weird fantasy aspirations would do well to get your grimy hands on this book.

Buy it.

Today.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Wizard of Weird, August 13, 2005

By 

Anon (England, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weirdmonger (Paperback)

This `retrospective showcase' anthology consists of 67 short stories (with 3 never published before) by the British writer of Weird Fiction and `Nemonymous' originator, D.F Lewis. The tales (ordered in alphabetical order) weave a strange narrative through a dreamlike texture of unsettling vision and stunning wordplay, which may leave the reader frequently bewildered but nonetheless satisfied that stories, with their own peculiar internal logic, make sense. Most of the stories are a few pages long, and as Ramsey Campbell has commented, `some of his stories are best read as prose poems'-- `Blasphemy Fitzworth' an example that Campbell gives.
`Darkness, cruelty and despair' are some of the themes found in the stories as highlighted by Campbell in a 1993 introduction to `The Best of D.F Lewis'. And the genre trappings of horror, science fiction and fantasy are all made peculiarly bizarre and unique with a recurrent twisted humour. If the reader longs for something more conventional, this can be found too in the `The Season of Lost Will' and `Welsh Popper' (the latter tale reprinted in the `Year's Best Horror Stories XXI, 1993); each of these two stories prove that Lewis is a master of the short form if the reader had any doubts.
If there are criticisms these are not directed at D.F. Lewis's fiction of which I have the utmost respect and delight for. Perhaps it was a lost opportunity by not including a long introduction, scholarly or otherwise to this collection, as does the `The Best of D.F. Lewis' (TAL, 1993) with its interesting introduction by Ramsey Campbell. Admittedly I found it somewhat a slog reading, obsessively, all 67 stories over a week; a `showcase' of twenty or thirty of the best here mapped out by theme may have sufficed considering that Lewis is now archiving his written work on the Web. But these are minor criticisms to a wonderful, if rather over-fattened collection.