I first heard about this book when I was listening to the audio book version of Stephen Kings Nightmares & Dreamscapes. He spoke about the inspiration of one of his short stories, I will paraphrase it here. He had received a copy of the book from a friend who thought that it would be something that he might enjoy. He opened it and was taken by the images along with the title's and short descriptions of novels that the images came from. He as inspired to challenge his family to each pick an image and to write a short story based upon the image. His short story was based upon the last image in the book, "The House On Maple Street". In addition to Nightmares & Dreamscapes, this story is part of a collection with 13 others written by prominate authors, you can find this collection here
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales / With an Introduction by Lemony Snicket
This book is a collection of Images, with the back story being that an author had showed up to a publishing house with a portfolio of Images each based upon stories that he had written. After a promising first meeting the author (Harris Burdick) said to come back the next day with his stories, and the rest of images. He never returned. The collection are the only images and the titles of the books that may or may not have ever existed.
This book is a great source of inspiration when the creative juices are not quite flowing, and is a perfect source of inspiration.
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The text is wonderful, the condition: not accurate as described.
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2018
First, this is one of the most amazing “childrens” books ever written -buy it for your library. Second, I know when purchasing used books, one should expect them to have had a bit of love and wear, however the vendor description of “Used: Good” did not prepare me for a dust jacket that was crumbling in places, sun (or light) damage on the inside and dirty, worn corners. I suppose you live, learn, and buy new.
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2018
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