While I'm not sure "astonishing" is the word I'd use to describe these stories (I'm reminded of Louis C.K.'s excellent bit about how hyperbole has become regular speech), I'd definitely say they are excellent. Each story is good, and I'm happy to say that the established writers deliver while the un...
Along with 'Salem's Lot, the best vampire novel I've ever read. Recommended for mature readers who can deal with the homoerotic aspects. I once met the author! Very cool person, I'll always remember the few minutes we spent hanging out.
I didn't completely dislike this book. It just wasn't my kind of book. I probably would have liked it better if I had read it in the 90's when it first came out, when I was in my 20's and a lot of the angst and teen foolishness was still near the surface. The book opens in the French Quarter of ...
This is a very mixed bag of stories, some are very interesting and draw you in while some felt, to me at least, as if they were trying too hard to be edgy and hip. These are all stories about Gender and Gender appearance and dealing with alternative ways of looking at and dealing with gender. It r...
Let me just say that there were some OK stories in this book. Not good, definitely not great, but OK. With that being said , the overall rating I gave this book is still one star because the bad outweighed the good. And I just could not get the second story out of my head the whole time I was readin...
I feel the need to talk about this particular short story from Poppy Z. Brite's Love in Vein. I am terribly disturbed by this story. This is the best story so far in the book. The best, I tell you. Powerful. Disturbing but very powerful and insightful in its own way. This particular short story is...
Lots of incestual gay vampire sex. Very goth. Everyone has stringy long black hair and painted black finger nails and cuts themselves. Maybe if I had gone through that phase I would have liked it more.
Good day, Ladies and Gentlemen, today we’d like to introduce you to a new pair of literary specialists, just graduated from Bullford, and full of things they want to say.With no more ado, I shall hand over the discussion to Asterisk and Obstalisk.ASTERISK: Thank you! Yes, we certainly have a lot to...
Katharine is a judge for the Aurealis Awards. This review is the personal opinion of Katharine herself, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any judging panel, the judging coordinator or the Aurealis Awards management team. To be safe, I won't be recording my review here until after the A...
This is nightmarish horror, lurid and grisly. As the author says...who amongst us doesn’t crane to look at an accident on the side of the rode, to see how bad the damage is? And so it is possible to get sucked into the morass. In ‘Exquisite Corpse’ bodily fluids flow freely and the time setting, the...
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