About the editor. Karen Joy Fowler -- A brief introduction / Richard Klaw -- Faded roses / James P. Blaylock -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- Evil robot monkey / Mary Robinette Kowal -- Apes in literature / Jess Nevins -- Tarzan's first love / Edgar Rice Burroughs -- Rachel in love / Pat Murphy -- Her furry face / Leigh Kennedy -- The four-color ape / Scott A. Cupp -- Red Shadows / Robert E. Howard -- The cult of the white ape / Hugh B. Cave -- The maze of Maâl Dweb / Clark Ashton Smith -- Quidquid Volueris / Gustave Flaubert -- Gorilla of your dreams: a brief history of simian cinema / Rick Klaw -- After King Kong fell / Philip José Farmer -- Deviation from a theme / Steven Utley -- Godzilla's twelve-step program / Joe R. Lansdale -- The men in the monkey suit / Mark Finn -- Dr. Hudson's secret gorilla / Howard Waldrop -- The apes and the two travelers / Aesop -- A report to an academy / Franz Kafka -- Faded roses / Karen Joy Fowler -- Author biographies -- About the editor.
Summary:
Presents a collection of eighteen short stories starring apes from such authors as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe, Gustave Flaubert, and Aesop.
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