Simon Strantzas
Autore di Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales
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Opere di Simon Strantzas
Greener Pastures 4 copie
These Last Embers 2 copie
The Other Village 2 copie
It Runs Beneath The Surface 2 copie
Thistle's Find 1 copia
Something New 1 copia
Go Home Again 1 copia
Emotional Dues 1 copia
On Ice 1 copia
Cold To The Touch [short story] 1 copia
Soli carbonizzati 1 copia
Pinholes in Black Muslin 1 copia
Behind the Glass 1 copia
Opere correlate
Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1972
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Breve biografia
- Simon Strantzas is the author of the critically-acclaimed COLD TO THE TOUCH (Tartarus Press, 2009), a collection of thirteen tales of the strange and supernatural. His first collection, BENEATH THE SURFACE (reprinted; Dark Regions Press, 2010) has been called "one of the most important debut short story collections in the genre". Strantzas's stories have appeared in THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW HORROR, CEMETERY DANCE, and POSTSCRIPTS. In 2009, his work was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.
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Greener Pastures is simply OUTSTANDING! This is literary dark fiction at its finest.
These stories almost all deal with heavy themes like loss, grief, and loneliness and yet, they're all distinctly different from each other. A lot of them reminded me of the stories of Robert Aickman, Laird Barron or Thomas Ligotti, but I actually liked Wehunt's tales more than those. I've been thinking about why that is and here's what I've come up with: Laird Barron and Thomas Ligotti are both fantastic with dark, nihilistic fiction and I don't find these stories to have that nihilistic flavor. (I didn't feel like killing myself when I finished Greener Pastures-so that's a plus. Also, the very last story, Bookends , ended on a hopeful note which was SO PERFECT, it gave me shivers.) Where Aickman is concerned, I enjoy his weird tales, but I often find myself left wanting, whereas with Greener Pastures I always felt satisfied at the end of the story, with more of an understanding, (I think), of what the author intended.
All that said, my favorite stories were: Greener Pastures -a weird little piece about truckers and the "spaces between". Without anything overtly scary, this tale made me feel extremely unsettled. October Film Haunt: Under the House -this story had a distinct House of Leaves vibe to it, minus all the side stories and footnotes. After I read it, the cover of the book finally made sense to me. Just a glimpse of that dog with the wooden crown in his mouth gives me the serious creeps. I also adored Dancers the story of a long, but unfulfilling marriage, some trees, and a creepy-ass thing in a jar. It makes me shudder just to think of it.
I enjoyed almost every. single. story in this collection. Each one was beautifully written, thought provoking and some of them caused genuine unease. What more could a dark fiction lover ask for? Oh, I know- MORE, please!
My highest recommendation to everyone, but-especially to fans of weird tales like those of Aickman, Ligotti and Barron. This one stands right up there with the best of them, so don't miss out!
*Shock Totem provided me a free e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is it.*
… (altro)
These stories almost all deal with heavy themes like loss, grief, and loneliness and yet, they're all distinctly different from each other. A lot of them reminded me of the stories of Robert Aickman, Laird Barron or Thomas Ligotti, but I actually liked Wehunt's tales more than those. I've been thinking about why that is and here's what I've come up with: Laird Barron and Thomas Ligotti are both fantastic with dark, nihilistic fiction and I don't find these stories to have that nihilistic flavor. (I didn't feel like killing myself when I finished Greener Pastures-so that's a plus. Also, the very last story, Bookends , ended on a hopeful note which was SO PERFECT, it gave me shivers.) Where Aickman is concerned, I enjoy his weird tales, but I often find myself left wanting, whereas with Greener Pastures I always felt satisfied at the end of the story, with more of an understanding, (I think), of what the author intended.
All that said, my favorite stories were: Greener Pastures -a weird little piece about truckers and the "spaces between". Without anything overtly scary, this tale made me feel extremely unsettled. October Film Haunt: Under the House -this story had a distinct House of Leaves vibe to it, minus all the side stories and footnotes. After I read it, the cover of the book finally made sense to me. Just a glimpse of that dog with the wooden crown in his mouth gives me the serious creeps. I also adored Dancers the story of a long, but unfulfilling marriage, some trees, and a creepy-ass thing in a jar. It makes me shudder just to think of it.
I enjoyed almost every. single. story in this collection. Each one was beautifully written, thought provoking and some of them caused genuine unease. What more could a dark fiction lover ask for? Oh, I know- MORE, please!
My highest recommendation to everyone, but-especially to fans of weird tales like those of Aickman, Ligotti and Barron. This one stands right up there with the best of them, so don't miss out!
*Shock Totem provided me a free e-copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is it.*
… (altro)
This appears in the beginning to be more of the protagonist nihilistic view on life then it was the horror story it is advertised to be, A couple watches as the tide comes in and recedes. The wife wishes to watch while the husband thoughts our are narration of his thoughts. As she enjoys, we assume, the change in nature of the shoreline while the protagonist dwells in his dark thoughts. But the end we wonder are we reading a horror story.
The author is able to portray the six hours and fourteen minutes it took for the high tide to reach its crest. And the subject of the event we have waited to experience what the tide has brought in is well described, But we do not know if what he describes is only in his mind or is actually seen. But then his partner speaks and lets the reader know the horror being described is actually transpiring. Or is she caught in his delusion. We will never know!
It is well written and makes you interested in the narration of the natural affect of the tide coming in. An idea of our subjects point of view the visitors/tourist in his mind are referred to as zombies.The prose and vocabulary is of very good quality.… (altro)
The author is able to portray the six hours and fourteen minutes it took for the high tide to reach its crest. And the subject of the event we have waited to experience what the tide has brought in is well described, But we do not know if what he describes is only in his mind or is actually seen. But then his partner speaks and lets the reader know the horror being described is actually transpiring. Or is she caught in his delusion. We will never know!
It is well written and makes you interested in the narration of the natural affect of the tide coming in. An idea of our subjects point of view the visitors/tourist in his mind are referred to as zombies.The prose and vocabulary is of very good quality.… (altro)
Michael Wehunt's Greener Pastures is an exquisite collection. The stories capture melancholy, loneliness, grief, regret, and those twin horrors; that the world is not what it once seemed, and that the world is actually as bad as we always quietly feared it would be. There is a highly visual, almost cinematic quality to the prose too; and as I have said before this collection features my new favorite episodes of The Twilight Zone (Greener Pastures) and The Outer Limits (Dancers), as well as a genuinely frightening found-footage film (October Film Haunt: Under the House). It also contains one of the actually saddest and most haunting stories I've ever read (The Inconsolable), and one which maybe me feel like I'd been punched in the chest (Bookends) which vacillates between the intense loss of a loved one and the sickening fear of what that emotion may drive someone to do. I cannot recommend this collection enough. These kinds of stories are why I read weird fiction; the exploration of those haunted and liminal spaces, both in the world and in ourselves.… (altro)
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Maybe a year is just too short of a timeframe to find enough top notch weirdness to fill a book. I've found the Strange Tales series from Tartarus Press to be much more rewarding. I guess I just expect more from editors of this caliber and background. I guess I expect to be challenged more by either content or style in something like this where the boundaries are wide open.… (altro)