phantasmagorical

• “The manuscript was locked in his desk until a year after his death and has been described as a phantasmagorical crime story in which a petty thief and murderer finds himself trapped in a cosmic police station where he learns about atomic theory and "the intertwined destinies of men and bicycles.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Flann O'Brien: Tall Tales, Long Drink

• “A subplot weaves in phantasmagorical elements such as a giant escaped tiger that is ravaging the Upper East Side, that bastion of old money and property.”

  2009 November 05 « One-Minute Book Reviews

• “The novel is a gut-wrenching, soul-churning, emotional wreck, bringing to mind some Harlan Ellison's "phantasmagorical" hara-kiris - combined with Raymond Chandler, no less.”

  Universe at Play: Two Must-Read Novels of the Fantastic

• “Olivier Dahan's long, harrowing and phantasmagorical biopic doesn't bother with such events as World War II, which slips by unnoticed.”

  The Wall Street Journal: We'll Always Have Allen's 'Paris'

• “Intense and phantasmagorical, his semi-abstract compositions have a highly theatrical flair, which shouldn't be a surprise considering his highly acclaimed collaboration with Peter Sellers for opera productions presented all over the world.”

  The Huffington Post: Edward Goldman: Dark, Sexy, Provocative. The Choice Is Yours

• “Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of the phantasmagorical QuasarDragon]”

  Free Fiction and Stuff for 9/7/09

• “And if that is not enough, there are tiny choo-choo trains running in all direction on the floor, further reinforcing the phantasmagorical sense of the whole enterprise.”

  The Huffington Post: Edward Goldman: It Sure Isn't Pretty, but Boy is it Beautiful

• “The Prague Cemetery," Umberto Eco's phantasmagorical revisiting of the anti-Semitic forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," is a literary tour de force.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Twelve Months of Reading

• “His phantasmagorical images burst with color and one can feel his brush still dancing around the edges.”

  The Huffington Post: Edward Goldman: Young Men and a Lot of Chocolate

• “Like a person in pain whose mind reverts to beautiful meadows as a means of distraction, the brain is suddenly filled with phantasmagorical visions of burlesque aliens on ecstasy, covered in rainbow sprinkle icing foam party orgy sparkles.”

  The Huffington Post: Angora Holly Polo: The Turin Horse (A Torinói Ló)

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