Douglas Smith
The Dancer at the Red Door
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Aurora Award FinalistAlexander King has everything--wealth, power, a business empire over which he rules. But lately, the corporate game in which he excels has lost its thrill for him. He needs a new game.And then, on the crowded streets of Toronto, in the dead cold of winter, she appears before him. The Dancer. Achingly beautiful, half-naked, and dancing to a song that only she and King seem to hear, she becomes King's new obsession.An obsession that draws him into a journey through a secret world hidden within the city he thought he knew…and to a very special club.Urban fantasy (short story)'The Dancer at the Red Door,' with its mix of obli…
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Aurora Award FinalistAlexander King has everything--wealth, power, a business empire over which he rules. But lately, the corporate game in which he excels has lost its thrill for him. He needs a new game.And then, on the crowded streets of Toronto, in the dead cold of winter, she appears before him. The Dancer. Achingly beautiful, half-naked, and dancing to a song that only she and King seem to hear, she becomes King's new obsession.An obsession that draws him into a journey through a secret world hidden within the city he thought he knew…and to a very special club.Urban fantasy (short story)'The Dancer at the Red Door,' with its mix of oblique horror, urban fantasy, and monsters ... recalls British horror novelist Clive Barker at his most disturbingly fanciful. -Quill and QuireAn excellent story … urban fantasy at its best. -Fantasy Book Critic...intriguing meditation on escapism...evoking Gaiman's Neverwhere, the obligatory helping of Lovecraft, plus a touch of something like Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut -Strange Horizons
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- ISBN: 978-1-928048-15-2
- EAN: 9781928048152
- Produktnummer: 31193457
- Verlag: Douglas Smith
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Douglas Smith is an award-winning Canadian author described by Library Journal as one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction. His fiction has been published in twenty-six languages and thirty-two countries. His work includes the urban fantasy novel, The Wolf at the End of the World, and the collections Chimerascope, Impossibilia, and La Danse des Esprits. His non-fiction guide for writers, Playing the Short Game: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction, is a must read for any short story writer.Doug is a three-time winner of Canada's Aurora Award, and has been a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award, CBC's Bookies Award, Canada's juried Sunburst Award, and France's juried Prix Masterton and Prix Bob Morane. A short film based on Doug's story By Her Hand, She Draws You Down won several awards at film festivals around the world.
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