Jump to content

Yonder (collection)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Yonder (book))
Yonder
First edition cover
AuthorCharles Beaumont
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy
Published1958 (Bantam Books)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages184 pages
OCLC4272960

Yonder is the second anthology of short stories by American writer Charles Beaumont, published in April 1958.

Stories collected

[edit]
Title Originally published in
"You Can't Have Them All" August 1956 issue of Playboy
"Fritzchen" 1953 (#1) issue of Orbit
"Last Rites" October 1955 issue of If
"Place of Meeting" 1953 (#2) issue of Orbit
"A World of Differents" Previously unpublished
"Anthem" Previously unpublished
"In His Image" / "The Man Who Made Himself" February 1957 issue of Imagination
"The Jungle" December 1954 issue of If
"The Quadriopticon" August 1954 issue of F&SF
"Hair of the Dog" July 1954 (Orbit #3) issue of Orbit
"The Beautiful People" September 1952 issue of If
"The Last Caper" March 1954 issue of F&SF
"Mother's Day" Previously unpublished
"Traumerei" February 1956 issue of Infinity Science Fiction
"The Monster Show" May 1956 issue of Playboy
"The New Sound" June 1955 issue of F&SF

Reception

[edit]

Anthony Boucher found the stories in Yonder to have been better chosen than those in Beaumont's first collection, The Hunger and Other Stories; he praised the book as "grotesque, sensitive, funny, horrible -- in short, Beaumontesque, and strongly recommended."[1]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Recommended Reading," F&SF, September 1958, p.98.
[edit]