{"product_id":"fantasy-kit-hardcover","title":"Fantasy Kit - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam McOmber\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Adam McOmber could be describing \u003cem\u003eFantasy Kit\u003c\/em\u003e as a whole with these lines: \"This is my house. The one I've been telling you about...You think: I know that house...But I can assure you you're wrong about that. You've never seen my house.\" In reading \u003cem\u003eFantasy Kit, \u003c\/em\u003e I felt like a visitor to a strange theme park constructed of smoke and clay, lust and the uncanny, wickedness and tenderness. Here readers are ushered into mazes and caverns, paradises and pleasure gardens; whisked to Neverland, Mars, ancient Rome, and a cornfield in Ohio. Throughout, McOmber writes with singular imagination and delight. These stories bewitch.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Michelle Ross\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Adam McOmber's stories are the work of an architect and master illusionist. He constructs fairy tales that twist into labyrinths, labyrinths that open up gloriously into new myths-and always, as if just under the page, is the thump and flow of blood, the pulsing, hidden desire of the human heart.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-James Tadd Adcox\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Evocative, inventive, disquieting, thrilling, sensual-here, to borrow a phrase, is story in all its occult guises. If, after you read the first story in Jackson's \u003cem\u003eThe Lottery\u003c\/em\u003e, Poe's \u003cem\u003eTales of the Grotesque and Arabesque\u003c\/em\u003e, or Carter's \u003cem\u003eThe Bloody Chamber, \u003c\/em\u003eyou couldn't stop until you'd finished the book, I have good news: You've found your next page turner. The stories in \u003cem\u003eFantasy Kit \u003c\/em\u003emay be short, but their effects are potent. Prepare for exquisite pleasures on every page.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Gabriel Blackwell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42096184524935,"sku":"9781625571403","price":43.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/675a24191c294840fe5509797f917333.webp?v=1732338882","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/fantasy-kit-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}