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*** The following is an excerpt from my review on This Is Horror ***
When we think of weird horror fiction there are several names definitive of the subgenre that we tend to think of. Names like Robert W. Chambers, H. P. Lovecraft, and Clarke Ashton Smith come to mind, as does Arthur Machen to some degree. But this is a new generation and there is a group of contemporary authors who are taking the weird in new, previously uncharted, directions. Authors such as Kelly Link, Brian Evenson, Nathan Ba ...more
When we think of weird horror fiction there are several names definitive of the subgenre that we tend to think of. Names like Robert W. Chambers, H. P. Lovecraft, and Clarke Ashton Smith come to mind, as does Arthur Machen to some degree. But this is a new generation and there is a group of contemporary authors who are taking the weird in new, previously uncharted, directions. Authors such as Kelly Link, Brian Evenson, Nathan Ba ...more
Wehunt is a great example of how to get into the industry. Here's a guy who showed up on the radar with work, worked his work, and got the work worked into a longer work: namely, this book. Wehunt has only really been active for the last few years. His prose is refined, his Weird elements stylized and trope-inverting, and his bibliography really motivating. In his collection, Wehunt gives us 11, 3 original to the collection, that rock. In an individual level, they had some problems, some moments
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A superb adventure into speculative horror fiction!!
I was really blown away by this collection from Apex Publishing. It's not often that I come across a collection like this where each story is superb. This is horror fiction at its finest, which isn't surprising as his work has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Black Static, The Dark, Shadows and Tall Trees, Nightscript, Shock Totem and Gamut (plus many more.) He also received a Shirley Jackson nomination for his debut collection; Greener Pastures.
I was a couple of paragraphs into the first story, Besi ...more
I was a couple of paragraphs into the first story, Besi ...more
This book might be the biggest deception in decades. Everyone in the industry claimed how good/terrifying stories Michael Wehunt wrote, but I found Greener Pastures lacking any sense of the strange and the fear and the disgust that horror is supposed to either portrait or elicit. I don't know what Steve Rasnic Tem, Simon Strantzas, Gemma Files and Paul Tremblay think horror is, but these stories clearly are not. But that is not the real problem, here. The problem is that these stories are really
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Mar 28, 2017
Leo Robertson
marked it as to-read
Dec 19, 2017
Michael Joseph Schumann
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Oct 15, 2018
Terry Weyna
marked it as to-read
