Arthur's Quest
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| Title: | Arthur's Quest |
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| Editor(s): | Ann R. Brown |
| Date(s): | March 1994 |
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| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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Arthur's Quest is a gen 147-page Beauty and the Beast (TV) anthology by Ann R. Brown.
Art by Connie Asch, Nate Dryden, John Forier, Sarah Kucerova, Teri Milliman, Colby Pfeil, Rita Terrell, and Paul Wunder.
Contents
- A Maglione Christmas ("Joe helps Catherine cook a real Italian Christmas feast. He has a special present for her, and secret plans for the evening.") (1)
- Mother's Little Angel ("Stephen Bass has a disciple in the psychiatric hospital. Timmy thinks he's only four years old, so he follows orders well.") (11)
- The Blue Danube ("A music box brings back memories of a waltz with a stranger, five years before ...") (73)
- Happiness, Inc. ("Dr. James Grafton talks Catherine into group therapy. Vincent is horrified to learn that the shrink specializes in helping women dump unsuitable men.") (81)
- The After-Comers ("A poignant and unforgettable alternative to "The Rest Is Silence."") (96)
- Arthur's Quest ("Arthur the raccoon and Ooja the tunnel cat conspire to reunite Vincent and Catherine after a dreadful misunderstanding ." (106)
- The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth ("Catherine tries to console Vincent after a painful confrontation with a Branch Davidian.") 120)
- A Father's Warning ("Father explains to young Vincent why he will never have a love of his own.") (134)
- King Burch ("A brokenhearted Vincent tells a tunnel child a fairy tale to explain why Catherine is marrying Elliot Burch.") (an earlier version of this appeared in Reflection's #3) (137)
John Forier
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Connie Asch
Sarah Kucerova
Colby Pfeil
Nate Dryden
Reactions and Reviews
Nine of Brown's short stories. In "A Maglione Christmas." Joe Maxwell (neé Maglione) volunteers to make Christmas dinner for C's appalling relatives visiting from Windsock, North Dakota. The meal sparks a romantic V/C evening. "Mother's Little Angel" has C kidnapped by a brutally childish man and his vicious, greedy mother in a scary tale of C's resourcefulness and fortitude as V and friends search for her. In "The Blue Danube," C/V share a memorable dance. In hilarious, on-target "Happiness, Inc." shrink Dr. Grafton (of "A Happy Life") persuades C to go for a weekend retreat among man-hating feminists while Grafton mouths self-fulfillment platitudes accompanied by verses from Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover." She's rescued from this dire fate by V. "The After-Comers," which the author terms controversial, C tries to rebuild a life after V's death. The titular story, "Arthur's Quest" tells of two tunnels pets, raccoon Arthur and haughty cat Ooja, trying to heal a rift between V/C. In "The Whole Truth and Nothing But," a former tunnel dweller, young Felicia, gives the hurtful benefit of her new-found religiosity and intolerance to startled C & V. C's infuriated, V's miserable. C prevails. In "King Burch," despairing at C's decision (in "Ozymandius") to marry Elliot, V tells tunnel children a fairy tale of King Burch, lovely maiden Kathryn, and the terrible Beast. If you loved Brown's rendition of the Beauty and the Beast fable, Castle of the Beast (which see), you'll want this zine for this story alone.[1]