The Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews

In this new collection of his nonfiction, well-known critic and novelist Darrell Schweitzer covers a broad range of matters fantastical, including a massive reconsideration of The Lord of the Rings, pieces on Neil Gaiman and E. R. Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros, the "death" of the horror field, and a not entirely irrelevant visit to the Stoogeum, the world's largest Three Stooges Museum-plus more essays about H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur C. Clarke, Hugo Gernsback, Robert Nathan, alternate histories, and the culture of bookselling. A marvelous read for an evening's literary entertainment.