Yonder (collection)
Yonder is the second anthology of short stories by American writer Charles Beaumont, published in April 1958.
Author | Charles Beaumont |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy |
Published | 1958 (Bantam Books) |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 184 pages |
OCLC | 4272960 |
Stories collected
Title | Originally published in |
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"You Can't Have Them All" | August 1956 issue of Playboy |
"Fritzchen" | 1953 (#1) issue of Orbit |
"Last Rites" | October 1955 issue of If |
"Place of Meeting" | 1953 (#2) issue of Orbit |
"A World of Differents" | Previously unpublished |
"Anthem" | Previously unpublished |
"In His Image" / "The Man Who Made Himself" | February 1957 issue of Imagination |
"The Jungle" | December 1954 issue of If |
"The Quadriopticon" | August 1954 issue of F&SF |
"Hair of the Dog" | July 1954 (Orbit #3) issue of Orbit |
"The Beautiful People" | September 1952 issue of If |
"The Last Caper" | March 1954 issue of F&SF |
"Mother's Day" | Previously unpublished |
"Traumerei" | February 1956 issue of Infinity Science Fiction |
"The Monster Show" | May 1956 issue of Playboy |
"The New Sound" | June 1955 issue of F&SF |
Reception
Anthony Boucher found the stories in Yonder to have been better chosen than those in Beaumont's first collection, The Hunger and Other Stories; he praised the book as "grotesque, sensitive, funny, horrible -- in short, Beaumontesque, and strongly recommended."[1]
References
- "Recommended Reading," F&SF, September 1958, p.98.
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