Strange Attraction

Overview:

  • Title: Strange Attraction
  • Author: Edward E. Kramer
  • Year: 2000
  • ISBN-10: 193059500X
  • Publisher: ShadowLands Press / Bereshith Publishing
  • Price: $29.95
  • Pages: 445+9
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Anthology
  • Title Reference: Strange Attraction
  • Notes:
    • "FIRST EDITION" stated on the copyright page.
    • Dated 2000 on the title page. Month of publication from Locus1.
    • Dustjacket title is Lisa Snellings' Strange Attraction. Title page is only Strange Attaction. Back of the dustjacket has the subtitle Stories and Artwork based on the Sculptures of Lisa Snellings.
    • Each story or poem is accompanied by a photograph (taken by Greg Staley) of the sculpture which inspired it.
    • Kramer's foreword is unpaginated. Page number given here is established by counting backwards from the first numbered page.
    • Ellison's introduction is mistakenly titled "Gopher and the Gilly" on the copyright page and on the contents page. It is correctly titled on its title page. There is a laid-in errata slip acknowledging the error.
    • The poem "Maya" is credited to Jamie S. Dorr on the copyright page and the contents page.
    • The story "Mr. Twisted" is credited to Edward Bryant on the copyright page and the contents page.
    • Short uncredited bios of the contributors begin on the second unnumbered page following the last numbered page of the book, totaling 9 pages.
    • Print run of 1000 copies according to Locus1, but there's no acknowledgment of the limitation in the book itself.
    • All stories and poems are original to this anthology. One of them ("A Lap Dance with the Lobster Lady") was pre-published as a chapbook by the same publisher in 1998. Three of them (dated 1999) were previewed in the program of the 1999 World Horror Convention in Atlanta.