For that was the beginning of my writing science fiction.

Unhappy for a month, he eventually realised why: In the introduction to his mammoth 1980 collection, The Stories of Ray Bradbury, he recounts his misery when playground teasing made him stop collecting Buck Rogers comics. This is real abstraction, a dissolution of the seen into the sensed.Bradbury has made one of the simplest and most attractive responses I know to this sort of generic hand-wringing. Personages making their way through a landscape come to embody self-containment, self-absorption. A particular character may present itself as a child or adult, man or beast, but its identity gives way almost immediately to its nuance. Her figures manifest conditions, sliding away from personality and into mood. Says art critic Peter Frank “Allois paints presences.

The result, a Fine Art Novel, combines the strength of classic literature and the power of fine art.Īs to who is Allois? Allois is an American painter and illustrator, best known for the striking and bizarre images of Aliens in her surrealist work. The reader is presented by the printed stories and their visual counterpart as found in the depths of the artist’s imagination. As Ray Bradbury broke the barrier between Sci-Fi and mainstream literature, so Allois had made an attempt to combine two art forms into one.

The Usher legend is given another life in this edition, combining the stories from our past and from our future, united through the art of the present-day artist Allois. The Grand Master of Science Fiction, Ray Bradbury himself, has re-built and re-demolished the House of Usher in his Martian Chronicles with the Story “Usher II”. The fable of tainted bloodline and madness is as disturbing today as it was at the time of “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” The pain of Roderick Usher was retold innumerous times, including musical and visual art forms. “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe has become one of the most recognized psychological horror story of all times. We took on this project after Ray Bradbury (author of “Usher II”) saw the finished book and expressed his enthusiasm, and also agreed to sign a limited number of signature sheets for two editions of the book. Gauntlet Press presents its first full-color illustrated collection, The Fall of the House of Usher/Usher II, illustrated by Allois.

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