Below, I mention how I liked each story and include a favorite quote: The Empty Chambers by Neil Gaiman A poem. Very creepy but I’d rather have read a Gaiman story. The Company You Keep by Steve Resnic Tem Walking among us are the members of a secret company. I don’t know what I took away from t...
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A twisted novella and chapbook from the warped minds of David Niall Wilson and Bret Alexander Savory. I can’t say too much about this one without ruining it and honestly, couldn’t really describe it if I wanted to. It was strange and engaging and extremely well written. Filled with disturbing imager...
As usual with short stories, only a few were interesting. Quite a few here were dull, frankly. I only read it for John Park's Nightward, really (it landed squarely in the interesting bucket btw). Heat Death (Patrick Johanneson), Flight of Passage (Jon Martin Watts), and One Nation Under Gods (Jer...
I'm not sure I'd call most of these stories horror. More like dark fiction. Some were a little too oblique for my tastes (I had more than a few 'Huh?' moments), but the writing caliber was good across the board. Overall rating: 3.5/5.0 starsReviewed for Bitten by Books. http://bittenbybooks.com.
I've read two of these stories. Caitlin Kiernan is bizarre, poetic, dreamy, surrealistic, and disturbing as always. The other story was about a man married to a Japanese woman who had bizarre night habits. He interrupts her and makes things a whole lot worse. This was a very horrifying story. I st...
Pretty good collection of stories. There were the usual losers that you find in a collection such as this but there were some real gems as well. The Goat, Prisoner 392 and Story Time with the Bluefield Strangler all come to mind as good reads.
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