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The Snake Fiend and Other Stories

✍️ Farnsworth Wright
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🏛 Bookship 📅 2023 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781915388056

📝 Description: The Snake Fiend and Other Stories

The collected fiction and poetry of Farnsworth Wright, editor of Weird Tales during its Golden Age. Tales of adventure, horror, war, mystery, jealousy and sentiment, from the 1920s and 1930s.

💎 Our verdict on The Snake Fiend and Other Stories

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This volume is a niche curiosity rather than a universal staple. It appeals strictly to devotees of pulp history and Wright's specific curatorial vision, offering a broad but shallow survey of the era's output. Readers seeking cohesive narrative arcs or modern literary polish may find the collection disjointed and dated. It is not suitable for those who prefer tightly plotted psychological thrillers or contemporary gothic styles. However, for the specialist collector of Weird Tales memorabilia, it remains an interesting artifact of literary history.
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This volume is a niche curiosity rather than a universal staple. It appeals strictly to devotees of pulp history and Wright's specific curatorial vision, offering a broad but shallow survey of the era's output. Readers seeking cohesive narrative arcs or modern literary polish may find the collection disjointed and dated. It is not suitable for those who prefer tightly plotted psychological thrillers or contemporary gothic styles. However, for the specialist collector of Weird Tales memorabilia, it remains an interesting artifact of literary history.

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