Ghastly Beyond Belief

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Ghastly Beyond Belief is a book by British writers Neil Gaiman and Kim Newman, published in 1985.

Contents

Contents

It is composed of a series of science fiction and fantasy quotations. [1]

Reception

Dave Langford reviewed Ghastly Beyond Belief for White Dwarf #66, and stated that "thrill to golden prose which spatters your enraptured forebrain across the ceiling!" [1]

Colin Greenland reviewed Ghastly Beyond Belief for Imagine magazine, and stated that "a compendium of the weird, the unspeakable, and the crashingly inept, plundered from the forty-two corners of SF and fantasy fiction and film". [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Langford, Dave (June 1985). "Critical Mass". White Dwarf . No. 66. Games Workshop. p. 8.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  2. Greenland, Colin (June 1985). "Fantasy Media". Imagine (review) (27). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd.: 47.
  3. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?34010