Tag: Weird
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BIRDBRAIN by Johanna Sinisalo (BOOK REVIEW)
“This is how humans function. This is precisely how humans function. You know what lies behind the horizon, but you have to carry on in the ... -
NOT BEFORE SUNDOWN by Johanna Sinisalo, translated by Herbert Lomas (BOOK REVIEW)
“’Definition always presupposes its opposite,’ I say to the woman in the camouflaged combat suit. She’s trying to get me to converse, though what I most ... -
HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER by Jeff VanderMeer (BOOK REVIEW)
“Silvina wrote that even through the poisoned landscape, we must love it. We must love what has been damaged, because everything has been damaged. And to ... -
THE SWIMMERS by Marian Womack (BOOK REVIEW)
“I have since understood how storytelling works, what it does with your senses. It was as if they somehow became entangled. The meaning of the story ... -
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer – Book Review
Today, Mord had tried to kill us by crushing us under his tread. Today, he was several stories tall and a monster. Wick was grappling with ... -
FANTASTIC TALES by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti, translated by Lawrence Venuti (BOOK REVIEW)
“We cannot fail to recognize that in the spiritual world as in its physical counterpart, everything that happens, happens and changes through certain laws of influence ... -
Ruby (2020) by Nina Allan — Book Review
The problem with having a story is that everyone starts believing they know it by heart. Sometimes the life you need turns out to be different ... -
British Weird – Selected Short Fiction, 1893-1937 – Edited by James Machin (BOOK REVIEW)
“Has it ever been your fortune, courteous reader [Mr Hampole inquired] to rise in the earliest dawning of a summer day, ere yet the radiant beams ... -
Women’s Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 – Edited by Melissa Edmundson (BOOK REVIEW)
“I knew all the time that for a man who had gone to bed in a commonplace hall bedroom in a very commonplace little town such ... -
THE BREACH by M. T. Hill (Book Review)
“This is the stuff you struggle to put in your reports. The smell. The taste. The way your body will make itself smaller until your back ...
