Guran delivers a good batch of stories about my favorite horror trope: the ghost. Given that it is a time worn sub-genre there is a pretty good amount of transcendence here that bodes well for the modern ghost story. There isn't really a Jamesian story here so if that is what you are looking for, mo...
Jack Vance has been one of my favorite writers ever since I first read his short story "Nopalgarth." I immediate read my way through everything of his I could find, and when I finally encountered The Dying Earth, my mind was blown. The merger of science and magic and the idea of an Earth so old nobo...
I like to read Horror books any time of the year, but right now, close to Halloween is the best time. These twenty short horror stories were the best of the Mammoth book of best new horror. Out of the twenty stories, I only really liked five of them. The rest were just OK, in my opinion. The ones I ...
Closer to 4 stars, but not quite because I got kind of bored in the middle, and the pace was off at the end.When I started Black Light it felt like just what I wanted to read. It was a Sunday morning. I'd slept in too long. I felt vaguely headachey. To fall into a decadent party thrown by an Andy Wa...
Closer to 4 stars, but not quite because I got kind of bored in the middle, and the pace was off at the end.When I started Black Light it felt like just what I wanted to read. It was a Sunday morning. I'd slept in too long. I felt vaguely headachey. To fall into a decadent party thrown by an Andy Wa...
***** Cleopatra Brimstone. A budding entomologist suffers a traumatic attack, and goes all Ms. 45 on some probably-undeserving men. Loved it. The supernatural/horror elements are unstinting, but the psychological/metaphorical aspects of the story are as delicate as butterfly wings, and carry the rin...
Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol by Elizabeth Hand I wanted to read this book because the proceeds will go towards a fund of a special education teacher that died at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT a year ago. At that time I was traveling through upstate NY and when I got the call from my...
Elizabeth Hand is one of my top ten authors so I was eager to read this short story collection. In Errantry, her prose is lyrical and her settings as fey as ever but somehow most of these stories felt unfinished to me. What impressed me here were singular scenes instead of the stories. The title ...
First off, I won my copy of this book via a giveaway hosted by Goodreads.While a few of the stories held my attention, on the whole I found the book unappealing. The stories within being too abstract for my tastes amd sometimes downright impossible to make enough sense of to even get the feel of the...
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