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Overview: What – is it all about? For some – for most perhaps – the very name of Punch will be enough ignite in their minds pictures of grotesque and cracked lacquered wooden things, of bells and distended bellies and moon-shaped grinning heads; or else they might find themselves involuntarily drawn to some garish childhood memory of fairground pandemonium or the melancholic sounds of candy-striped tarpaulin flapping on some windblown seafront where Punch and his associates screeched and capered for their entertainment. Yet for all their pin-prickly poignancy, these thoughts are essentially superficial, grounded as they are in basic sentimentality. The Transfiguration Of Mister Punch proffers something more complex. It is the work of three celebrated contemporary writers, working more or less in isolation from one another to produce what might be termed a literary triptych – a three panelled piece – fantastical in its parts, suggestive in its entirety of a reality altogether out of this dream we call life. A reality behind that little rectangle of gloom and plywood scenery where the myth of Punch is played out in time honoured fashion to the human world. This is the wondrous and dreadful, tragical and comical domain of Mister Punch & Co., fettered no more by the manipulations of humanity; real living things, breathing, large as life, real as the stars.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy > Horror
- Table of Contents:
A Brief Preamble [by Mark Beech]
The Show That Must Never Die [by Charles Schneider]
Memorabilia [by D. P. Watt]
A Warm Welcome
The First Hour: With Gravity, Grace
The Second Hour: Oh, Pretty Polly!
The Third Hour: The Mechanised Eccentric
The Final Hour: In Comes I
This Foolish & Harmful Delight [by Cate Gardner]
Part One: Those with Secret Names
Part Two: The Tiniest Cell in Town
Part Three: A Twisted Sort of Love
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