Fearful Pleasures (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: A. E. Coppard
- First Published: 1946
- Type of Work: Stories
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—mythological
- Time of Work: Undefined, but with some contemporary references
- Setting: England, Ireland, and France
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, France or French people, Ghosts or apparitions, Dreams, England or English people, Ireland or Irish people
- Locales: France, England, Ireland
The Plot
Fearful Pleasures, which consists of twenty-two stories, opens with “Adam and Eve and Pinch Me,” the title story of A. E. Coppards first collection (1921), in which a writer who is certain that he is not dead nevertheless experiences unpleasant ghostly sensations. He encounters his charming third child, whose imminent birth is announced by the writer’s newly expectant wife immediately after he mysteriously reconnects with his body.
In “Clorinda Walks in Heaven,” the title story of a 1922 volume, a woman meets all of her husbands from past lives...
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