RAMAGES DE LA DOULEUR: NOUVELLES DE L'ESPACE INTERIEUR

by Garry Kilworth

Set in vivid, exotic locations all over the world, from the Arabian deserts to eastern England, this powerful anthology offers the reader entrance into a place in which pain and torture become welcome nightmares, obsession a way of life, and death.


- The Dissemblers
- The Rose Bush
- Blind Windows
- Lord of the Dance
- Let's Go to Golgotha!
- Sumi Dreams of a Paper Frog
- Scarlet Fever
- The Man Who Collected Bridges
- The Invisible Foe
- Almost Heaven
- God's Cold Lips
- Oubliette
- The Songbirds of Pain

Genres: Fantasy, Short Stories, Collections, Science Fiction, Literature

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1984

About the author

Garry Douglas Kilworth is a historical novelist who also published sci-fi, fantasy, and juvenile fiction.

Kilworth is a graduate of King's College London. He was previously a science fiction author, having published one hundred twenty short stories and seventy novels.

Reviews

[David]

An agonizing journey deep into the heart of what it is to be human. It is, as its title suggests, pain-laden and pain-driven. It is, as I think the best speculative fiction is, at its best when it is at its most human—no matter where/when in the universe the narrative may actually be set. The characters are some very disturbing interior landscapes in which to travel, strange brains lost in alien familiar topography.

[Chris H · Rating 1 out of 5]

I struggled through with this but to be honest I only kept on with it because it was written by the father of a friend of mine so it was a book born of duty rather than because I wanted to finish it

[Neophiliac · Rating 4 out of 5]

Introduction
The Dissemblers
The Rose Bush
Blind Windows
Lord of the Dance
Let’s Go to Golgotha!
Sumi Dreams of a Paper Frog
Scarlet Fever
The Man Who Collected Bridges
The Invisible Foe
Almost Heaven
God’s Cold Lips [“The Marble of God’s Cold Lips”]
Oubliette
The Songbirds of Pain

[Pacyfa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my kind of book. I don't think these short stories worked for me at all - "pointless till the twist in the end" kind of stories..

There were some worthwhile reading, I think the "Sumi Dreams of Paper Frog" was very good but that was the pick of them.

[Rincess · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actually only read the last story for lit class. I'll think about writing a review if I ever read the whole book.