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|summary=A delightful, and delightful-looking collection of intriguing fantasies.
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Meet Harris Burdick - not that many people ever did. He was a fictional entity, produced by [[:Category:Chris van Van Allsburg|Chris van Van Allsburg]], and in the 1980s [[The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg|his output]] was a dozen odd but beautiful pictures with, for each, a single caption and the name of the story they were designed to illustrate. Burdick, allegedly, disappeared - but his pictures stuck around to inspire a Stephen King short story. Now we get a lavish, yummy hardback of all the pictures, and now, through the agency of a great editor, they all have their appropriate short story.
I'm not sure that I, as a young reader, would have worked out all the tricksy faux-biography of Burdick. [[:Category:Lemony Snicket|Lemony Snicket]] turns up, and between his new and the original old introductions, you're teased with Burdick's story as well as all the regular ones. Similarly, I might not have 'got' all of Mrs Stephen King's artful visitation tale. Nor the metaphysical time-bending piece that turns up later, nor some of the post-modern, self-referential beats of another. But boy, there are still treasures in here.
