“This adventure will test the nature of the world.”
Title: The Etched City
Author: K. J. Bishop
Genre: Fantasy/Surreal/New Weird
Year: 2003
K.J. Bishop’s The Etched City is one of those books that are at once both obvious and perplexing when trying to assign to any one genre. It’s undeniably fantasy in the same way Stephen King’s Dark Tower series [...]
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 For me, their aroma is superseded by a sound like the drawing of a bow across the bass string of a violin.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 [...]
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 [...]
