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ellen_datlow) wrote2008-01-21 07:53 pm
ellen_datlow) wrote2008-01-21 07:53 pm
Some more favorite works in 2007
I'm getting there but still reading for 2007. I'm at the point wherein I have to start rereading the stories I've marked for my "short" list to eliminating. It's a difficult process, and I sometimes have to reread one story a number of times to make that final decision--in or out.
The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown) is a brilliant, suspenseful novel about the doomed 1840s Franklin expedition to the Arctic that truly brings to life what it must have been like in that cold cold place. Injected into this great adventure is a major supernatural element as "something" is ambushing and slaughtering men from the two ships. There are human monsters too, and heroes. Highly recommended.
Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler (Serpent’s Tale), the author's tenth collection, features twenty-one mostly new stories from this prolific writer of horror and mystery fiction. Although a few of the stories are thin, they’re all entertaining, and there are a handful that are wonderfully creepy.
Masques of Satan by Reggie Oliver (Ash-Tree Press) is the author’s third excellent collection, comprised of twelve supernatural stories and a novella, five previously published (all but one, during 2007). Oliver’s experience as an actor, producer, playwright, and theater director shows in several of the stories as he delves behind the bright lights and camaraderie of theatrical life. The jacket art and interior illustrations are all by the author.
The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown) is a brilliant, suspenseful novel about the doomed 1840s Franklin expedition to the Arctic that truly brings to life what it must have been like in that cold cold place. Injected into this great adventure is a major supernatural element as "something" is ambushing and slaughtering men from the two ships. There are human monsters too, and heroes. Highly recommended.
Old Devil Moon by Christopher Fowler (Serpent’s Tale), the author's tenth collection, features twenty-one mostly new stories from this prolific writer of horror and mystery fiction. Although a few of the stories are thin, they’re all entertaining, and there are a handful that are wonderfully creepy.
Masques of Satan by Reggie Oliver (Ash-Tree Press) is the author’s third excellent collection, comprised of twelve supernatural stories and a novella, five previously published (all but one, during 2007). Oliver’s experience as an actor, producer, playwright, and theater director shows in several of the stories as he delves behind the bright lights and camaraderie of theatrical life. The jacket art and interior illustrations are all by the author.
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(Anonymous) 2008-01-23 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)I was at first thrown off by the beginning of the ending, but the more I thought about it, and the more I got used to it, the more it seemed the only appropriate ending.
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