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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

February 25, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Ghosts, witches, human statues, Black Shuck, Sleeping Beauty, David Bowie, and even Shadow grace the pages of Gaiman’s latest short story collection – 25 tales and poems written in his singular voice, about things that might just shake you to your core. The Review: Short story collections often have it rough – crammed full, nearly always read too quickly, never quite as satisfying (to me) as a novel – but I think few have it harder than collections by […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Sci-Fi, Short Stories • Tags: Amanda Palmer, American Gods, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fantasy, Horror, Literature, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Trigger Warning, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

Shadow Show

October 21, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: A collection of stories inspired by and written for perhaps the greatest of fantastical forefathers, Ray Bradbury. Some set in the future, some in the past – some completely magical, others holding only the smallest seedling of magic… but all deeply indebted to Ray’s exceptional legacy. As he calls it in his foreword, it’s a Second Homecoming – his children, come home to the October Country to pay homage to their passing king. The Review: I don’t tend […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Short Stories • Tags: A Tribute to Ray Bradbury, A Visit to Octo, Alice Hoffman, Audrey Niffenegger, Charles Yu, Dan Chaon, Dave Eggers, Fantasy, Fiction, Harlan Ellison, Horror, Joe Hill, Literature, Margaret Atwood, Mort Castle, Mystery, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller, Sci-Fi, Shadow Show, Short Stories

The October Country

October 26, 2011 by Drew

The Short Version: Bradbury’s classic short story collection, comprised of stories that visit that strange place on the edge of midnight, where the leaves are always orange and the air always crisp… and the weird is the ordinary. The Review: Ray Bradbury may be the quintessential October author. Apologies to great writers like Neil Gaiman, but Bradbury knew how to capture the quintessential autumn spirit – perhaps it’s because he is a writer of a simpler time, when technology was not at […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature, Short Stories • Tags: A Visit to October Country, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Ray Bradbury, Short Stories, The October Country

Something Wicked This Way Comes

October 30, 2010 by Drew

I don’t know how I’m just getting to this book now. This is one of those books that has always been on my radar but never ended up in my hand walking out of a store. I enjoyed Fahrenheit 451 back in high school and I try to read parts of From The Dust Returned every Halloween night… but for some reason, I’ve never read further into Bradbury’s canon. I think it may’ve been reading Johannes Cabal that pushed this […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature • Tags: A Visit to October Country, Fiction, Halloween, Horror, Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

Shadow Show

The October Country

Something Wicked This Way Comes