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Bark at the Ghouls
Bark at the Ghouls rated it 5 years ago
This is free. Go get yourself a copy! Link hereIf these stories are any indication of what we can expect from Tor’s new horror line NightFire, we have some excellent horror fiction to look forward to in the brand new year! The production and narration is excellent and the writing is strong and polis...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 7 years ago
I'm not a huge Lovecraft fan, but I love Johnson's quick and wonderful short stories. This is beautiful, though I would have gotten more from it if I liked Lovecraft.
Merle
Merle rated it 7 years ago
I really enjoyed this novella. It is in dialogue with a short story by Lovecraft, which I have not read, but you don’t need to read that to enjoy this. And fortunately for me, this is fantasy, not horror. It is set in a portal world clearly conceived as the stuff of nightmares, with monsters, shifti...
Gen's Shelves
Gen's Shelves rated it 8 years ago
Gorgeous and deeply thoughtful, and highly recommended.
The better to see you, my dear
The better to see you, my dear rated it 8 years ago
I came to this issue by clicking on other Valente's stories besides "Silently and Very Fast". Mantis Wives by Kij Johnson was... a gory allegory? I'm unclear and I didn't quite care for it. Pity, because Ponies, of the same writer, was too a gory allegory that is awesome in it's absolute cruelty. ...
Chris Blocker
Chris Blocker rated it 8 years ago
At the Mouth of the River of Bees is an interesting and varied pack of stories. Although many of the stories in this collection could easily be labeled as Fantasy, many others escape such simple labeling. Spanning the genres, each stories is unique; while some are more strait-laced fantasy, fairy ta...
Allusion is not Illusion
Allusion is not Illusion rated it 8 years ago
It's always hard to rate anthologies, and this one was particularly uneven for me -- not just because I'm not really a horror fan (not all the stories are horror, by any means). The first story, "Tasting Gomoa" confused me. A barren women, sexually frustrated and now replaced by a new younger wife, ...
Burgoo
Burgoo rated it 8 years ago
Another great novella from Tor.com. Brilliant
Inkspot Fancy
Inkspot Fancy rated it 9 years ago
The Secret History of Fantasy is a 19-story collection of what I'm given to understand is unusual or different fantasy, along with a couple nonfiction essays about the genre as a whole (and of course, the forward by Peter Beagle). Taken as a whole, it was a varied and sometimes fascinating read, tho...
Words, words, words
Words, words, words rated it 10 years ago
As twisty, and ravelled, and knotty, and deliciously bizarre as an Escher litograph.
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