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The Dream of a Beast by Neil Jordan – an obscure book review

Some thoughts on Neil Jordan’s 1983 novella, the strange and hallucinatory The Dream of a Beast. The edition used in this review is The Collected Fiction of Neil Jordan, published by Vintage Books in 1997. This edition also includes Jordan’s 1976 short story collection Night in Tunisia, as well as his 1980 novel The Past. Books cited: The Dream of a Beast (Neil Jordan, 1983) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886) The Crystal World (J. G. Ballard, 1966) Ice (Anna Kavan, 1967) Night in Tunisia (Neil Jordan, 1976) Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice, 1976) The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Angela Carter, 1979) Films cited: The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992) Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (Neil Jordan, 1994) Michael Collins (Neil Jordan, 1996) The Butcher Boy (Neil Jordan, 1997) In Dreams (Neil Jordan, 1999) Byzantium (Neil Jordan, 2012) The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979) Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983) The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986) Angel (Neil Jordan, 1982) The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan, 1984) American Beauty (Sam Mendes, 1999) Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008) Other media: Assorted posters and book covers; screenshots from various films and TV shows; some of my own photography; as well as a couple of miscellaneous library images and a published illustration used under the expectation of fair use. [If an image of yours has been used without credit and you’d like to be credited in this section, let me know in the comments below. I do try to cite and credit any photos used, but it’s not always easy to find the proper credits attached.] Image of Neil Jordan on the set of Breakfast on Pluto (Patrick Redmond/Sony Pictures, 2005) This video was written, produced and edited by AT Pennington. Title music: ‘Journey by Train’ by AT Pennington Thank you for watching. If you have any further thoughts, opinions or recommendations based on any of the books mentioned in this video, please get in touch in the comments. #books #booktube #neiljordan #literarycriticism #literaryfiction