Product Description

Collecting a diverse range of styles into one breathtaking volume, Speaking in Tongues gathers the very best short fiction of Frank Fradella, including the 2004 Short Story of the Year, "The Ritual of Vesta." Also included in this volume is the stunning photographic artistry of Darren Holmes in a special full-color section within the book. With tales ranging from adventures to fantasy that touches the fringes of horror and the erotic, this collection has something for everyone.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5837506 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 220 pages

About the Author
Frank Fradella is an author, editor, artist, and poet whose works include the fantasy adventure novel, Valley of Shadows (Cove Press, 2004) and the epistolary romance, The Absent Lover (New Babel Books, 2004). His most recent releases include Vespertine 1912 and Swan Song.His short story,"The Ritual of Vesta," was voted the Best Short Fiction 2004 in the Preditors & Editors Poll.His award-winning poetry volume, Dead Things, has been taught in high schools here and abroad. Frank's other short fiction has appeared in such anthologies as Fantasy Readers Wanted:Apply Within (an EPPIE winner) and Coscom Entertainment Annual No.1: Elements of the Fantastic. He is the author and illustrator behind the upcoming Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing (3rd Ed.,Alpha). Frank is also the founder and president of iHero Entertainment, whose illustrated prose magazine, Cyber Age Adventures, has won numerous awards including the Writer's Digest Grand Prize and the Preditors & Editors Award for Best Fiction Magazine 2004. Fradella also teamed up with Canadian artist JP Dupras to create the world's first complete superhero tarot deck,The Fradella Adventure Tarot (U.S. Games Systems, Inc., 2003), featuring the heroes and villains of the iHero Universe. Frank's superhero role-playing game, which boasts an introduction by gaming legend Gary Gygax, will be out in 2006 from Living Room Games. Frank has served on the Zine Advisory Board for Writer's Digest and was an associate director of the Game Publisher's Association. Frank lives in South Florida with his dog, Max. His mother wishes he would just give her grandchildren already.

Customer Reviews

Sheer delight!
Frank Fradella's short story collection was a neverending array of wonderment from the first story to the last. In turns, heart-warming, bittersweet, romantic, sexy, giggle-worthy, and tear-jerking, SPEAKING IN TONGUES has something for everyone.
The book is filled with rich imagery and language that just caresses the synapses!
Fradella also blends cultures and genres in a seamless mesh of tremendous storytelling! His center section called "A Thousand Words" turns that old adage into truth as he creates stories of exactly one thousand words to narrate a picture. And as always, his love for superheroes weaves throughout. But Fradella's superheroes are more than just buff guys in spandex; they are men and women, they are sensitive, complex creatures, many of whom take their powers not from some far-flung planet or bizarre scientific accident, but from their own inner strengths and through the influence of the Old Gods. It was a departure from the superhero "norm" that I found truly delightful!
All in all, SPEAKING IN TONGUES was a delicious feast for the senses that left me sighing as I closed the cover on the last page.
Well done! I am ready for more from New Babel Books!