SUPERNATURAL TALES Children's Poetry The Known World not only

The Known World not only marks the return of an extraordinarily gifted writer

arousing an almost uncontrollable hunger within him

This is a landmark in American literature

Anne McCaffery

No survivors

SUPERNATURAL TALES Children's Poetry The Known World not onlyPenned at a time when the literature of the fantastic was at its peak, this chilling collection of eerie tales fuses the fantastic with the decadent, creating new artistic forms redolent with satanic imagery, morbid atmospheres, and obsessive notions of decay. Soaked in the intoxicating warmth and aromas of Italian pastoral idylls, these stories are also pervaded by eerie or macabre sensations, particularly when the past suddenly intrudes into the