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Limited to 350 copiesContents:001 -Mark Valentine - "The Pale Sentinels Of Asphodel"011 - Tiffani Angus - "What Cannot Be Described"027 - Sheryl Humphrey - "Flora’s Lexicon"055 - Timothy J. Jarvis - "With Scourges, With Flowering Sprigs"073 - Ron Weighell - "Fugues of The Blue Lilly"093 - John Gale - "A Garden of Sorrow and Sorcery"105 - Reggie Oliver - "Lady With A Rose"123 - D. P. Watt - "But They Withered All" 133 - Colin Insole - "Gallybag" 153 - Alison Littlewood - "Down In The Dendrons" 16...
Pretty good collection. Beautiful book, lovely art, typical Egaeus Press excellence. Stories were mostly entertaining. "Fugues of the Blue Lilly" was a little too purple for my taste. "Belbyne's Lane" was very difficult to read, as the author's choice of prose and lack of ideal narrative pacing resulted in numerous reading roadblocks--very annoying. Jackson's "A Phantom Flowering," however, was truly wonderful (despite the blaring typo in the last sentence). And of course, V. H. Leslie's "Margin...
GALLYBAG by Colin Insole“And there were other patterns in the landscape that he could not decipher — like shapes from an old watermark that had faded and merged with its paper.”This book happens to bear a proud watermark on its title page as this story is arguably the book’s literary watermark that I cannot imagine fading as such, but perhaps ever merging and meshing with our past and future, giving the expression ‘hidden in plain sight’ a new meaning. I could have quoted most of this story as p...
For me, The Book of Flowering was more a 3.5 that I decided to round up to 4.o due to the beauty of the edition and to the fact that I believe my disappointment comes from too high expectation. Some of the stories in this volume were excellent, but most were just average, and some I had to make an extra effort to finish. The stories that stood out were "The Pale Sentinels of Asphodel", "Flora's Lexicon", "Fugues of the Blue Lilly", "But They Withered All", "Down in the Dendrons", "Belbyne's Lan...
