Barbara Roden
Autore di Northwest Passages
Sull'Autore
Serie
Opere di Barbara Roden
The Brink of Eternity 3 copie
Flu Season 2 copie
Undesirable Residence 1 copia
The Speckled Band 1 copia
The Musgrave Ritual 1 copia
Dead Man's Pears 1 copia
Opere correlate
A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings (2001) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 52 copie
Reunion at Dawn and Other Uncollected Ghost Stories (2000) — Postfazione, alcune edizioni — 15 copie
Subterranean Magazine Summer 2010 — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1963
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 29
- Opere correlate
- 37
- Utenti
- 160
- Popolarità
- #131,702
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 22
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 2
Varying in length from just a few pages to around thirty, the stories here cover everything from vampires to haunted houses, with nods to everyone from Algernon Blackwood to Peter Straub. In general, the stories centre around isolation, people or things being where they don't belong, and the futility of... humanity, I guess. So they definitely plug into the Blackwood/Machen tradition rather than your M.R James.
The chill-factor will vary between readers - though fans of oft-times violent and explicit contemporary horror will find little to please them here. The horror here is generally allusive and metaphorical.
In terms of originality, the collection is a bit of a mixed bag.I found the ant/arctic tales to be the most compelling. It's hard for me to as I'm a bit of a ghost story addict and have read several hundred myself, and the genre as a whole tends to cluster around sub-types. Suffice to say, I never felt there was anything blatantly derivative, though I did find myself comfortably slotting the bulk of the stories into one format or another within a page or so.
Prose-wise, Roden is confident and competent. There's nothing flashy or sublime here. She goes for a quiet, almost detached tone (this is not to say the characters do so). It's very well put together, but I think something with a slightly stronger flavour could have helped a few stories, and increased the originality.
For all that, Northwest Passages is a more than worthy addition to the genre - and I think several of the stories are likely to pop up in anthologies over the years, they are solid.… (altro)