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I’ve always loved single author short story collection, but I realize I’m in a minority — the sort of people who devour forewords, afterwords, and author’s notes, always hunt for biographical notes in books and magazines, and read non-fiction books about their favorite authors. Knowing that short story collections of any kind, both multi-author anthologies [...]
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“We are the October People, the autumn folk. That is the truth in an almond husk, a nightweed shell.”
Title: From the Dust Returned
Author: Ray Bradbury
Genre: Horror/Fantasy
Year: 2001
From the Dust Returned is another trip with Ray Bradbury into October Country, this time located roughly in upper Illinois. It is a fix-up novel in the vein of [...]
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As in a daze Cormac turned his steed and rode back across the trampled field. His horse’s hoofs splashed in lakes of blood and clanged against the helmets of dead men. Across the valley the shout of victory was thundering. Yet all seemed shadowy and strange. A shape was striding across the torn corpses and [...]
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Martin knew it was autumn again, for Dog ran into the house bringing wind and frost and a smell of apples turned to cider under trees. In dark clock-springs of hair, Dog fetched goldenrod, dust of farewell-summer, acorn-husk, hair of squirrel, feather of departed robin, sawdust from fresh-cut cordwood, and leaves like charcoals shaken from [...]
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Are you familiar with the scent of extinguished birthday candles? For me, their aroma is superseded by a sound like the drawing of a bow across the bass string of a violin. This note carries all of the melancholic joy I have been told the scent engenders — the loss of another year, the promise [...]
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There are philosophers who argue that there is no such thing as evil qua evil; that, discounting spells (which of course relieve an individual of responsibility), when a man commits an evil deed he is a victim himself, the slave of his progeniture and nurturing. Such philosophers might profit by studying Sanctuary.
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My best friend when I was twelve was inflatable.
Title: 20th Century Ghosts
Author: Joe Hill
Genre: Horror/Surreal/Literary
Year: 2005
Either you know who Joe Hill’s father is, or you don’t. Once you do know, it’s hard to read his work without the comparison somewhere in the back of your mind . . . until of course you realize that [...]
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